WHY? - Distance Lyrics
You wanted an effigy of me so true it bleededEach hair a filament of glass formed while heatedAssumed you'd see bright blooms and fruit treesWith the root things weededWhat your new scene neededSo that's what we didWhat was unclean was played and sungThen framed and hung till lame and numbAnd then repeatedCause that's when the fame will comeAnd the game is wonAnd your name is rung in every ear like a secretI gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsenseKeep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not thereNow I'm pushing past 30If I bow out as the years close inAbandon my sound man and band and themI'll give no blushing curtseyTo the proud shouts of close kinI ground it into ground and then some, friendsJust drop a dusty curtain on the loud crowd when the show endsAnd end the whole thing where no men found meI'm so *****ing thirstyIn a cold cloud only of my ownAnd lonely worsens, surrounds meI gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsenseKeep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not thereMen and women might yet quote his modicum of the truthBut never will they get right close to Jonathan Avram WolfCause I gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsenseKeep my distance to withstand the silence of you missingWhen you're not there
