"Might be my favorite." -- Unknown
Paper Boats is the twenty-third track in the album Transistor: Original Soundtrack. Its instrumental release is the twenty-second track in the album Transistor: Original Soundtrack (Extended). Paper Boats was written and produced by Darren Korb, with vocals performed by both Ashley Barrett and Korb.
Paper Boats accompanies the credits sequence of the game. An orchestral rendition of the song was released as part of Supergiant Games' 10th Anniversary Album, The Songs of Supergiant Games.
As with the other vocal tracks, it is a song written and performed by Red.
Lyrics[]
Official lyrics from the Bandcamp album release:
Seconds march into the past
The moments pass
And just like that they're gone
The river always finds the sea
So helplessly
Like you find me
We are paper boats floating on a stream
And it would seem
We'll never be apart
I will always find you
Like it's written in the stars
You can run, but you can't hide
Try
Like the moon that makes the tides
That silent guide
Is calling from inside
Pull me here and push me there
It's everywhere
Hanging in the air
We are magnets pulling from different poles
With no control
We'll never be apart
I will always find you
Like it's written in the stars
You can run, but you can't hide
Try
I will always, always find you
I will always
I will always, always find you
I will always
I will always find you
Like it's written in the stars
We can run, but we can't hide
Try
I will always find you
Like it's written in the stars
We can run, but we can't hide
Try
I will always, always find you
I will always
Trivia[]
- If played in the Sandbox's Music Player, Unknown may remark "Might be my favorite."
- Red's humming-along to Blank Canvas follows the melody of this song.
- Paper Boats was one of the most challenging Transistor songs for Darren Korb to write, due to the pressure to emotionally sell the game's ending.[1]
Media[]
References[]
- ↑ Transistor Devs Q&A. Archived by the Wayback Machine; retrieved 04 August 2024.
| Transistor Soundtrack | |
|---|---|
| Vocal Tracks | In Circles (_n C_rcl_s) · Paper Boats · She Shines · Signals · The Spine · We All Become |
| Instrumental Tracks | Apex Beat · Blank Canvas · Coasting · Cut Apart · Dormant · Forecast · Gateless · Gold Leaf (G_ld L__f) · Heightmap · Impossible · Interlace · Old Friends · Sandbox · Stained Glass · Tangent · Traces · Vanishing Point (V_n_sh_ng P__nt) · Water Wall |
| Unreleased Tracks | Dread1 · HighriseStingerShort · MysteryStingerAuden |
| Unused Track | HighriseStinger |
| Albums | Transistor: Original Soundtrack · Transistor: Original Soundtrack Extended · The Songs of Supergiant Games |