Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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PAPER KITES
Words and Music by Beth Wood
(DADGBE)

I’d be lyin’ if I said that I let it all go
we dance into each other and then dance on
ten years later I remember his hand just so
on the small of my back, and I can still hear the song
on the record player, ‘say a little prayer for me’

Paper kites, we let go the string
we watch them fly into the everything

The deep sigh, the wine, the helium sky
the way he carried me weightless to his bed
I’ve long forgotten all the reasons why
we turned to other arms instead
I suppose that’s just the way it goes

CHORUS

I heard he made it on down to Mexico
built a driftwood house out by the sea
sometimes I wonder If he ever did know
he carved a place in my memory

CHORUS

I’d be lyin’ if I said that I let it all go