| "Sounds of Yesterday" | |
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| Song by Poets of the Fall | |
| from the album Ghostlight | |
| Released | April 29, 2022 |
| Length | 5:23 |
| Label | Insomniac |
| BPM | 130 |
| Key | C♯/D♭ |
| Producer(s) | Poets of the Fall Lauri Hämäläinen |
Sounds of Yesterday is the third track on Poets of the Fall's 2022 ninth studio album Ghostlight.
Lyrics
It was seven forty seven, we were on our way to heaven in a race car to the stars,
with a city of blazing lights embracing us. We never thought to worry, cos we
only thought of glory and we trusted our lucky stars, so we never thought mere
seconds would betray us.
Thought we saw true in the bright youth, ghost of light come shining through. In
the dawn blue, in a breath they flew.
Silent now the sounds of yesterday. I’m treading on sacred ground again like a
single errant ray. Showing us the wounds we both sustained and our sacred pain,
till’ silent fall the sounds of yesterday.
Nothing I do, nothing I say will ever turn the rising tide. In the vein of fever dreams
it seems to ride us. We never said we’re sorry and the pattern wrote the story,
one more death by friendly fire. All on pain of missing out on that final rush.
Did we run through before we knew what it was we left behind. Hunting ghost
lights all the white nights through.
Silent now the sounds of yesterday…
Hear them softly sigh, the sounds of yesterday. Let them heal our wounds.
If I close my eyes, I can see you, oh I can see you close enough to touch. I hardly
dare to dream you, oh, lest it be too much. What’s the moral of the story when I
only see us fighting, elegy to, to the starry-eyed.
Silent now the sounds of yesterday
Trivia
- The first two lines may refer to a Boeing 747. The Space Shuttle was transported on the back of a 747, so in context the song may be making reference to the Challenger disaster as the phrase "mere seconds" was used by a news anchor on the day. The event served as a wakeup call to a public that had started to consider spaceflight routine and safe. If this is indeed the reference, then "the pattern wrote the story" would relate to the later Columbia disaster.