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When You Are Close, I Am Gone Lyrics by The Saddest Landscape

2013

I can't escape these walls I’ve built to keep you safe
To keep you in. If you will never see them. If you will never come
Nights alone have ruined me: I’m wrong again
I’m starved again, alone again, alone again, alone, alone, alone
I’m hearing you repeat the old, familiar phrase, “I just can’t cope”
I say I feel it too. But camaraderie is suffering. It feels like speaking tongues
Maybe I’m lying if I’m still not close to you
Because after all this time I fall asleep just fine
No matter how it hurt I fall asleep just fine
Maybe I’m meant to be alone if I can’t pull these parts together…
I’ve probably had enough time to sort this troubled mind to structure
So when you’ve had enough of being stuck with “given up”
Please don’t apologize because I’ll understand just fine
Another bad night: we failed again. I don’t think we can fight this depression
But I’ll still try to ignore the signs that we are playing a losing game
We cannot create the same feelings. Comfort is not love. But is it close enough?
I feel alone again. It’s setting in
I’m learning how to settle: please don’t give in. When you are close I am gone
Because where I am, I won't stay long
And I know it’s hard to wait for me when I’m afraid to let you near
But please don’t give in: I’ll clear my head one day
I’ll make you proud of me. Won’t always be so down
I will be closer to you
Please don’t give in
We are all scared. We are all stuck
Dreaming of better days that will never come
Let it go! Bring that smile back. Let it go!
You know that we want you here. Please stop!
Blacking out your days. Please stop!
Saying that we will be better off without you
We will always find new ways to let each other down
New ways to scare ourselves. So if this is what you hold onto I will protect it
We burn with friendly fire
Breathe quick with anticipation, our imaginations will crush us
But it is so hard to impress you when you’ve built these walls so high
But I want in. Tear you open leave you breathless and longing
Show you that you are more than what you lack
I keep reminding myself I don’t fall in love just to fall apart
But I still believe in us. We can right this ship
If they don’t pull us away we will be legend
Save me, save me, handcuff me to this bed let me sweat through the sheets
Until the voices stop and the hum quietly says your name
Until I find a better way to say that I love you
(I want to know it doesn’t hurt) just remember that I knew you when and
I will always come back for you
(I want to know it doesn’t hurt you)
I will come back for you
I will come back
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The Saddest Landscape

The Saddest Landscape

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