Em Em Dm Am

Trying to feel normal
Rising on a thermal
Getting too high
To glide on by

Three sheets to the rudder
Tying on another
Forgetting to steer
My way through here

C
In lieu of some protection
F
Praying for ejection
G
When the fear of death beleaguers
Am
I pull The Leaver

So many here have gathered
A constant need to scatter
Needling thought:
Be where they’re not

Partly want to party
Feels more like a sortie
What good is defense
When only I’m against?

[Chorus]
I know it's my own engines
Send me to this ending
I could ensure survival
Instead I fed the spiral

Pull the lever, pull the lever
Pull the lever, pull the lever
When the sealegs’ shifting
Sends you drifting
Will the cumulonimbus
Swallow you up in it?
Will the force of the fall
Or the shock of the withdrawal
If the impact doesn’t kill
Then my God, what will?

[Verse]
I sputter and I scramble
Hand upon the handle
Predicting the fall
As everything stalls

What options I am opting
As altitude is dropping
Intense interference
On my final appearance

[Chorus]
Keep my eyes on the horizon
But the ground keeps on arising
My wings are insufficient
To play a coefficient

I know it's my own engines
Send me to this ending
I could ensure survival
Instead I fed the spiral

In lieu of some protection
Praying for ejection
When the fear of death beleaguers
I pull The Leaver