The Distance

And he travelled (Repeated)

And he travelled far (Repeated)

I can feel the distance (Repeated)

[Verse 1:]

The streets kept coming and coming and coming? through his tracks

And every scene he spied was all the same

He kept running and running and running and never looked back

He never realised how far he came

And it didn't matter that the latter part hadn't bothered him

Rather all the sadness that followed him as if it was a ball and chain

It was a long await, his posture had changed fraught with his fault and his anger

Until he wouldn't respond when they called his name

It was all part of the game, it started as a play to get ends

It left him with the breath of debt and less friends

And yet he never questioned where the quest went

And when dissenters didn't deem him special

He did his best to impress them and this led to regrets then

Still he was dead-set on success and distress

He only expressed through a sent text

Addressed to anyone he hadn't met yet

The tires peeled on desire's wheels

Again he said, "I can feel."

[Chorus:]

The distance

[Verse 2:]

The city had changed him as he reflected on the decade that passed

His life, he reckoned at last, was a staged pun

With a fantasy masked where the grave was dug

A double life revamped and the other side bites till it tastes blood

So he drives to escape driving a stake through his great love

Incessantly trying to shine through the bars like a caged sun

Dissecting a piece of the strange run

With the dirty southern niggers working for crumbs

In some underground dank club

Where there's nothing but strained hugs from mother and father

And a strange son cause he can't recall when he became one

Though the shame is heavy and weighs tons

He still finds a way to place blame on what they've done

Visits they've stayed away from

And perhaps it was that all along so he just carries on

And he can barely call because the talks are rarely calm

He wears his calluses like a tux to a daily prom

Wearily feeling forever young until they play the song

And his patient wife waits gracefully while he breaks the dawn

Racing across the States to raise the stakes and cost to pay it off

Debating cons of procreation on the hopes to trade it off

A basic honest home relations, how'd they know it would take this long?

But he placed his honour in the way he crawled

All that means is he hits the floor harder from farther up in case he falls

He's racing towards the exit so disconnected

He felt compelled to misdirect his perspective

I can feel

[Chorus]

And the more that I stand still

The closer I get still