Listen to it on Spotify, or watch the video on youtube. It is about a woman I saw on a plane one time.
Who made this?
Sam Emerson Bodary: song, guitar, vocals
Jack Keating Doran: piano, vocals
Daniel Lawrence Seibert: percussion, synthesizer, string and horn arrangement
Eli Chambers: bass
Erin Mason: vocals
Lee Tucker: trumpet
Zach Zerkle: trombone
Leah Anderson: violin
Devin Copfer: violin
Rachael Keplin: viola
Stephen Forster: cello
Corbin Pratt: pedal steel
Tony Rice: engineering
Emily Schmidt: engineering
Glenn Davis: mixing
Mike Cervantes at The Foxboro: mastering
Art: Dru Batte
And the Emersingers: Andrew Marczak (The Roof Dogs), Will Myers (Rat Dreams), Carrie Stratton, Cameron Carr (Trying), Brady Costigan (Trying, Stock Photo Family), Reece Thompson (Thirty-One West), Max Orr, Kristi Lawrence, Regina Squeri, Jack Doran, Andrew Picklesimer (Embers of Arson), Ira Harper, Scott Woodward (The Antique Smugglers), Anita Doran, Monaé James, Lyndsey Andray, Melissa Bethea, Jesse Bethea, Philippe “Devin XO / Devin Summers” Laroque, Therese Rajasekera, Gregory Nagy, Ryan Branch, Lee Ann McBride, Ethan Borman, Hannah Margolis, Miles Meckling, Taylor Gleason, Mandar Kathe, Sam Craighead, Phil Liddell, and Brink.
What are the lyrics?
Never left the state
But she’s flying to Oregon
Rekindled her Arkansas
High school boyfriend
It’s been 15 years
Since they’ve even held hands
And she’s telling this all to her seatmates
She’s nervous on planes
And maybe in general
She’s chomping on chewing gum
Got thoughts on millennial
Sons 16 and 20
She left them at home
And she’s sitting in seat 16B
The fasten seatbelt signal is bright
And these people are traveling all day and night
We land at three
Hopefully
There’s a first time for everything
My ex husband’s fine
He’s a natural father
He works in IT
And he’s got a stepdaughter
I think I could be at least one half as happy
Does my makeup still look ok
She undoes her seatbelt
She walks to the bathroom
We look at each other
And breathe in her perfume
And think
And we think
And we think
The fasten seatbelt signal is bright
And some people act busy even up in the sky
Look at me
I believe
There’s a first time for everything
And we’re all on her side as she gets up to leave
And we tell her good luck but it’s not guaranteed
And we look at each other and we want to believe
The fasten seatbelt signal is bright
And these people seem earnest but might not be right
And then she leaves
Hopefully
There’s a first time for everything
There’s a first time for everything