Distance Is the Only Measure - Jesse Marchant

Drive out along the bridge

Across the dam

They all come wild to the night

In the setting sun it all looks fake

Hopeless town

I’ve been wearing myself thin

And loosing sight of what is real

Dressing up for the one

I know will never come

By the river bank beyond the trees

In a hideaway

I go leaving for a while

I was made to love

But I was born into a mine

Not to trust

Only people that would fall away

Like the daylight from your eye

Over the pass

An eagle flew away

But I caught his eye

And there he lingered for a while

And he glimpsed into my soul

Thinly, it was veiled in the brush

I was hiding underneath

I was blinded by the rush

That night I lost the plot

As a meaning drew away

It was buried in the deep

Under the words I couldn’t say

In the ember of a fire

I saw the face

Of the one I love

It is still driving me away

There is a warm wind

Blowing through this starry night

And I am going to leave this time

And you won’t hold me back alive

You won’t follow me

All your debt I leave behind

Branches crack, birds fly

I was late to learn