Distance Makes - Maxïmo Park

Distance makes the heart dissolve

Like little pills cloud water

Dissolving inch by inch

Separating a fraction further

You helped to shape this space

We’d gaze at dancers

The view, it fluctuates

Flattened bodies

Drove on the floor

Within a rectangle

Of cool green light

We’ll watch them in the warmth

We’ll breathe beside each other

The stars are landmarks… and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks… you can’t swing from them

I wish this was an endurance test

But there are no limits

I sent a letter to my own address

While you lived in it

You used to drink from that glass

Decorated in Scandinavia

You nearly ironed me out

And now I’ve changed my behaviour

This morning I saw a blue metal star

I was on tiptoes high above the backyard

Competing with the real thing

It ends up dominating

The stars are landmarks… and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks… you can’t swing from them

Everyone’s got their own idea

Of utopia, and why we’re here

The stars are landmarks… and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks… you can’t swing from them

The stars are landmarks… they have no function