[Verse 1] Runway lights like rosary beads Counting down the miles to home Seventy-six hearts in a silver shell Descending through the dark alone The radio said the sweetest words A pilot learns to trust the most Four syllables that mean you're safe Four syllables that made us ghosts [Chorus] Clear for landing But the runway had a heart attack Clear for landing And we never made it back The thing that came to save the night Became the thing that took our light Clear for landing Clear for landing [Verse 2] Two hands that knew this sky by feel Could trace the route with both eyes closed A thousand landings blur the edges Till the danger wears the face of home But someone's eyes were somewhere else One screen screaming while the other slept The truck they sent to fight the first fire Was parked across the last one left [Chorus] Clear for landing But the runway had a heart attack Clear for landing And we never made it back The thing that came to save the night Became the thing that took our light Clear for landing Clear for landing [Bridge] We trust the steel, we trust the voice We trust the ones who have no choice The gate was blind, the shield was deaf And safety broke what safety blessed [Final Chorus] Clear for landing But the ground was never ours Clear for landing Through the wreckage and the hours A kitchen light still burning somewhere Two dinners getting cold Clear for landing On a night that swallowed whole
