The Distance Lyrics

[Hook]
The distance (the moment I step still), I can feel the distance (the closer I get still)
The distance (the moment I step still), I can feel the distance (the closer I get still)
I can feel the distance

[Verse 2: Tonedeff]
The city had changed him as he reflected on the decade that passed
His life, he reckoned at last, was a staged pun
With a fantasy masked where the grave was dug
A double life revamped and the other side bites till it tastes blood
So he drives to escape driving a stake through his great love
Incessantly trying to shine through the bars like a caged sun
Dissecting a piece of the strange run
With the dirty southern acres working for crumbs
In some underground dank club

Where there’s nothing but strained hugs from mother and father
And a strange son because he can’t recall when he became one

Though the shame is heavy and weighs tons
He still finds a way to place blame on what they’ve done
Visits they’ve stayed away from

And perhaps it was that all along so he just carries on
And he can barely call because the talks are rarely calm
He wears his calluses like a tux to a daily prom
Wearily feeling forever young until they play the song
And his patient wife waits gracefully while he breaks the dawn
Racing across the States to raise the stakes and cost to pay it off
Debating cons of procreation on the hopes to trade it off
A basic honest home relations, how’d they know it would take this long?

But he placed his honour in the way he crawled
All that means is he hits the floor harder from farther up in case he falls
He’s racing towards the exit so disconnected
He felt compelled to misdirect his perspective
I can feel...

The distance
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance
And the more that I stand still
The closer I get still
And the more that I stand still
The closer I get still

[Outro]
And I don't wanna turn around, no
To see that I'm all alone
Just a pillar of salt and stone
Just a pillar of salt and stone
And I don't wanna turn around, no
To see that I'm all alone
Just a pillar of salt and stone
Just a pillar of salt and stone

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Appeared on CunninLynguists' 2009 Strange Journey Volume One.
The track is produced by Kno, who delivers arguably one of his best pieces.
While Deacon the Villain and Natti step back, Tonedeff is on the vocals on this track, handling both verses.

The first verse tells the story of a man who is running from everything in his life. Because of this, he slowly erases all his relations in this hopeless attempt to escape the misery of life.

In the second verse, we find the same man looking back on the last decade of his life, only to realize that running was never the best solution. He suffers from the fragile personal relations left in his life, while deep inside blaming them for the trouble he has. In the end Tonedeff realizes that the tale he has been telling, isn’t about a random man, but a tale of his own life.

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Release Date
March 24, 2009
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