Distance - Jim Morris

I can’t hold you any longer.

I’ve got to catch my plane.

Feeling like I do right now

I may never leave again.

So little time together,

You know I’d love to stay.

Tomorrow when I wake up

You’ll be a thousand miles away.

Turn around and close your eyes.

We mustn’t linger on.

By the time you open them,

I promise I’ll be gone.

I can’t take this any longer

Without lying to myself.

How long before this distance

Makes me fall for someone else.

All those late-night conversations

When you’re crying on the phone,

Or the morning when you call me

Just to see if I’m alone.

I too old for this confusion;

I feel like a damned cliché.

Tomorrow when I wake up

You’ll be a thousand miles away.

Turn around and close your eyes.

We mustn’t linger on.

By the time you open them,

I promise I’ll be gone.

No, I can’t take this any longer.

I’m just lying to myself.

How long before this distance

Makes me fall for someone else.

How long before this distance

Makes me fall for someone else.

I can’t hold you any longer.