Closely Guarded Distance Lyrics

With your left hand concealed behind your back
And the right one the red of redemption eve
You inhale my breath
The mist crawls in your gaze
As I peel off the fabric and seal this fate

With the cold honesty of your merchant eyes
And the sweat flavoured charms you lay on display
Sensitive as stone
I sample all you show
With a laser dot dancing on my forehead

So I'm saving myself from
What I'm saving myself for
And we meet like islands
You will come before you go
Like two winters in a row
And you guard your distance

With a presence that wrings me dry of dreams
You invoke the forgotten that lurks beneath
And I see through you
But I'll see you through
As your sighs engrave your name in me

So I'm saving myself from
What I'm saving myself for
And we meet like islands
You will come before you go
Like two winters in a row
And you guard your distance

So I made you break your principles
Well you made me bury my virtues
You, the sum of your experiences
Me, the remainder of my fears
Goes to show how much I know
Goes to show how much I know
None of these days are the days to remember

Stay
No
Please stay
I will do no such thing
I want you to stay
Your wants are hardly my concern
I need you to stay
Your need hold very little significance to me
I dare you to stay
Your dares are meaningless to me
I dare you to stay
I dare you to try and stop me from leaving
So was it just a fuck?
Sometimes fuck is just a fuck

Lovely solitude please hold me by the throat
And whisper in my ear how everything goes wrong
'Til I feel the cracks begin to show
'Til I feel there's nowhere left to go now, to go now

Lovely solitude please help me hide my heart
Before my red right hand tear all of this apart
For I feel it welling up inside
And I feel it searching for a way out

I learned to crawl today
So don't ask me to run
I turned to stone too late
To keep me from harm
I promised not to fall
But seems I clearly lied
But seems I clearly lied

We must no hesitate to wait forever now
The star fell, lightless, and shattered on the ground
And the worms now writhe in my mouth
And words, the words won't come out

I learned to crawl today
So don't ask me to run
I turned to stone too late
To keep me from harm
I promised not to fall
But seems I clearly lied
I clearly lied
I clearly lied

And the cracks begin to show
And the cracks begin to show
And the cracks begin to show
And the cracks begin to show

Lovely solitude please hold me by the throat
And whisper in my ear how everything goes wrong
'Til I feel the cracks begin to show
'Til I feel there's nowhere left to go now