This song is about the difficulty of distance, in the context of the Covid-19 Novel Coronavirus 2019 Global Pandemic. I wrote it specifically about being separated from my partner, and not being able to see her for the past 7 or so months. In some ways, it's really just about a feeling of loss and longing, like you have so much yet nothing simultaneously -- like there's something missing.
lyrics
When the darkness sings its sorrow
and the cold gets into bed
and the night comes lurking through the window
and at best it feels undead
and the solemn men stand on the side walk
handing out pamphlets for
forsaking all who deny them
the right to love
and it burns like a ghost
in the silent halls of this house
and wails like an ode
to a star-crossed lover leaving home
and the wound is still fresh open
and the blood still pools in my skin
if love is meant to be perfect
then how could I let this in?
and though time is nothing but a construct
how it hurts just the same
though distance is only a number
it's one with no one to blame
and it stings like an old
love lost to a rival
and it breaks like a bone
can we turn back time on our own?
and it fades, and it fades and it fades
and it fades, and it fades and it fades
and it fades, and it follows, and it follows and it fades
and it fades, and it follows, and it follows
and it fades, and it follows, and it follows and it fades
and it fades, and it follows, and it follows
So how does it feel to be on your own?
While I'm here collecting dust.
Like a photograph of the moon in 1963
it's like I just forgot the use of me
So how does it feel to be on your own?
While I'm out here losing touch
and every day and week by week
I'm out here collecting dust.
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