Watch: Balto – Airplanes

It was back in 2011 that we introduced Balto and their debut release October Road. Since then they have released Monuments from which the following video for Airplanes is taken. The video is an atmospheric short film shot in Portland, OR following the intersecting lives of 4 characters: A child dressed as superman, a grown man at a cubicle in the woods, and a young couple in a clawfoot bathtub:

Lyrics:

As a child I looked at airplanes
Learned all their technical names
I never could guess what they’d do

And I spent my youth waiting in airports
Convinced of a purpose
I’m lit up, I’m love, I’m a man

And I’ve rented rooms that change with the seasons
I forget the reasons
The bottom falls out, I’m alone

I hid in the corner, the tanks on parade down below
Looking back homewards, shedding old tears for you
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But can I stay with you just for a little while
Been trouble all behind
And lying here beside you
Hell I want to get it right this time

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When I make it home I’ll hand out key-chains
And souvenir ashtrays
But I’ll save the full story for you

When I make it home, get a house like my brothers’
And be a good husband
All simple and static and whole

I’ll probably be older, when the fever burns out of my mind
But I gotta tell you, I’m lit-up, I’m filled up and trying

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