Every once in a while I hear something that grabs my attention no matter what I’m doing. That happened today when I had the TV on in the background on HBO and it played a promo of movies coming up this year and the music just caught my attention. I whipped out my shazam app and it found out the name of the song and artist, “All at once” by The Airborne Toxic Event. I just loved the song so much…the music and the lyrics. It’s such a rare treat when it all clicks together like that. Here are a couple of different versions of the amazing song.
Here’s the black and white performance video of All At Once by The Airborne Toxic Event
Here’s the recorded version with lyrics
“All At Once”
We were born without time
Nameless in the arms
Of a mother, a father, and God
When the world would wait for us
A thousand years in the crush
Of our eyes, fearless, and awed
So quietly, we’d fade into sleep
With nothing on our mind(s)
Hoo, hoo, hoo..
And then we longed to be loved
In the rush, we become
Some things we thought we’d never be
We were surprised by how hard
Left wary and scarred
From the nights spent feeling incomplete
And all those evenings swearing at the sky
Wishing for more time
All the promises we broke when we tried
Just wastin’ all our time
Hoo, hoo..
We grow old all at once
And it comes like a punch
In the gut, in the back, in the face
When it seems someone’s lied
And our parents have died
Then we hold onto each other in their place
And I feel the water risin’ around us
Maybe that’s okay
Yeah, I feel the world changin’ all at once
I guess it’ll be okay
Hoo, hoo, hoo..
And we all had one hope
There was someone lookin’ down
To return our bodies to each other
And the ground