Song Description
WHEN YOU'VE BEEN APART TOO LONG
| Song Length |
3:55 |
Genre |
Pop - Europop, Pop - Classic |
| Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
Mood |
Troubled, Diplomatic |
| Subject |
General, Loneliness |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
(Verse 1)
The hallway light is a dying star
Tracing the spots where you recently were
I'm counting the breaths in the hollow space
Where the air still holds the shape of your face
The silence is loud, it's a physical weight
Pressing my chest like the locking of a gate
I'm retracing my steps to the front door frame
Whispering the vowels of your middle name.
(Pre-Chorus)
And the walls are leaning in
Testing where the edges of my skin begin
Or where they end--
I'm a tethered kite with a broken string
Waiting for the static, waiting for the ring.
(Chorus)
I've got the ghost-limb ache of you
Tugging at the sleeves of everything I do
It's a tether, it's a wire, it's a fever in the hall
I'm tracing the shadows you left on the wall
Oh, the distance is a canyon, and I'm standing on the brink
If I don't hear your voice, I'm gonna start to sink
I'm losing my structure, I'm losing the view
I've got a bad case of separation from you.
(Verse 2)
The clock is a metronome counting down wrong
How can sixty minutes feel like a century long?
I checked the screen, I checked the porch
I'm holding your sweater like a holy torch
I know you're coming back, my head says it's true
But my pulse is a frantic rhythm looking for you
I'm pacing the floorboards, memorizing the grain
Anything to distract me from the pull of the drain.
(Bridge)
It's not just the missing, it's the lack of gravity
Floating untethered in this empty cavity
The world feels thin, like paper, like glass
I'm watching the window, I'm watching the grass
Just give me a signal, just give me a sound
To anchor my feet to this spinning ground.
(Guitar Solo - Distorted and swirling)
(Chorus)
'Cause I've got the ghost-limb ache of you
Tugging at the sleeves of everything I do
It's a tether, it's a wire, it's a fever in the hall
I'm tracing the shadows you left on the wall
Oh, the distance is a canyon, and I'm standing on the brink
If I don't hear your voice, I'm gonna start to sink
I'm losing my structure, I'm losing the view
I've got a bad case of separation from you.
(Outro)
Just come through the door.
Just break the seal.
Make the room quiet.
Make the world real.
One more breath...
One more sound...
(Fade out)
Just be around.
Just be around.