Distance

You wanted an effigy of me so true it bleeded
 Each hair a filament of glass formed while heated
 Assumed you'd see bright blooms and fruit trees
 With the root things weeded
 What your new scene needed
 So that's what we did
 What was unclean was played and sung
 Then framed and hung till lame and numb
 And then repeated
 Cause that's when the fame will come
 And the game is won
 And your name is rung in every ear like a secret
 I gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsense
 Keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there
 Now I'm pushing past 30
 If I bow out as the years close in
 Abandon my sound man and band and them
 I'll give no blushing curtsey
 To the proud shouts of close kin
 I ground it into ground and then some, friends
 Just drop a dusty curtain on the loud crowd when the show ends
 And end the whole thing where no men found me
 I'm so fucking thirsty
 In a cold cloud only of my own
 And lonely worsens, surrounds me
 I gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsense
 Keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there
 Men and women might yet quote his modicum of the truth
 But never will they get right close to Jonathan Avram Wolf
 Cause I gotta keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there to listen to listen to this nonsense
 Keep my distance to withstand the silence of you missing
 When you're not there