Unknown / Nth

Album: Unreal Unearth (2023)
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  • You know the distance never made a difference to me
    I swam a lake of fire, I'd have walked across the floor of any sea
    Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen
    And all that we believe
    So I thought you were like an angel to me

    Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy
    If there were scarlet flags
    They washed out in the mind of me
    Where a blinding light shone on you every night
    And either side of my sleep
    Where you were held frozen like an angel to me

    It ain't the being alone
    Sha-la-la (sha-la-la-la-la-la)
    It ain't the empty home, baby
    Sha-la-la (sha-la-la-la-la-la)
    You know I'm good on my own
    Sha-la-la
    Sha-la-la, baby, you know it's more the being unknown
    So much of the living, love, is the being unknown

    You called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me
    You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth
    And what's left of it, I listen to it tick
    Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me

    Do you know, I could break beneath the weight
    Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you?
    That I'd walk so far just to take
    The injury of finally knowing you

    It ain't the being alone
    Sha-la-la (sha-la-la-la-la-la)
    It ain't the empty home, baby
    Sha-la-la (sha-la-la-la-la-la)
    You know I'm good on my own
    Sha-la-la
    Sha-la-la, baby
    You know it's more the being unknown
    And there are some people, love, who are better unknown Writer/s: Andrew John Hozier-Byrne
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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