Distance Not Safety
From Distance Not Safety
Distance Not Safety
Where ‘Cut Flowers’ pulled back and let the silence do the work, ‘Distance Not Safety’ arrives at a propulsive clip and makes clear the album can shift gears without losing its footing. The chorus hook, ‘you can run from the fire, but you still breathe the flame,’ lands exactly as hard as it should, and the thematic line is clean: the opener was about what gets taken from you, this one is about what you carry yourself. The bridge, ‘it’s not the miles, it’s the weight you carry,’ earns its breath before the full band closes things out. Two tracks in, the album has already established both its emotional range and its craft ceiling, and this one confirms neither the opener nor the sequence is a fluke.
Lyrics
I put a thousand miles between us, thought that'd be enough Changed my name, changed my number, but I still feel your touch Tried to bury every echo, let the silence set me free But the further that I run, the closer you seem to be
I swore I'd leave it all behind But ghosts don't care for space or time
Distance, not safety, I learned that too late You can run from the fire, but you still breathe the flame The road disappears, but the scars still remain And once again, I pick distance, not safety
Every border, every city, just a different kind of cage Trading chains for open highways, but the past won't disengage Thought the night would keep me hidden, thought the sun would burn it clean But shadows stretch forever, and they know just where I've been
I swore I'd leave it all behind But ghosts don't care for space or time
Distance, not safety, I learned that too late You can run from the fire, but you still breathe the flame The road disappears, but the scars still remain And once again, I pick distance, not safety
It's not the miles, it's the weight you carry Not the silence, but the words unsaid You can build your walls, make your world imaginary But what's in your head ain't ever dead
Distance, not safety, I learned that too late You can run from the fire, but you still breathe the flame The road disappears, but the scars still remain And once again, I pick distance, not safety
And once again, I pick distance… not safety…