RUNNING ON AIR

Citizen Way pictures heaven as a place of sudden weightlessness in "Running On Air" — "when the gates open up and we're finally free, to look in your eyes no more tears no goodbyes... we got the clouds rolling under our feet, running on air." The absence of tears is named directly rather than left as a vague sense of relief.

"The war we've been fighting is all that we've known, but now a beautiful garden is where we call home" contrasts a whole lifetime of struggle with a single new arrival, treating the fight as something that ends rather than fades. "Throwing all of our worries into the sea, our burdens are gone, this is where we belong" repeats the same idea of relief that actually lands somewhere, not relief in the abstract.

The chorus keeps circling back to "running on air" as its own image of freedom — not walking, not flying, but moving without the ground pulling back, closing the song on lightness rather than arrival.