Come Closer~Burn Distance Down

Verse 1

Phone buzzes at midnight

Your voice like warm static in my ears

Thirty years between us

Funny how that disappears

Every screen light makes me blush

Every word you type feels like a touch

I haven't held your hand yet

But somehow you're already here

Pre-Chorus

And I laugh about the years between us

But the ache is real inside my chest

I ain't got time to waste on maybe

And I'm nowhere near finished yet

Chorus

Come closer through the wires

Let me trace your voice like velvet fire

Come closer through the wires

Let's burn the distance down tonight

Please don't take forever, darlin'

While my skin still knows the heat

Hurry up the future, baby

Come and find me while the spark is sweet

Post-Chorus

(Sweet) sweet

(Mine) mine

Oh-oh-oh

Let's burn the distance down

Verse 2

Your smile breaks through the camera glow

Dark strands and hungry eyes

I'm typing slow and breathing fast

Counting hours till we synchronize

You send a picture from your kitchen

That crooked grin comes shining through

I send a wink across the distance

And wonder what I'd do with you

I'm not young, but I'm not finished

I've got years of wanting left to give

The calendar can count whatever

It doesn't get to tell me how to live

Pre-Chorus

Every video call's a small rehearsal

For the day the screen gets left behind

I haven't touched your skin yet

But you've been touching something inside mine

Chorus

Come closer through the wires

Let me trace your voice like velvet fire

Come closer through the wires

Let's burn the distance down tonight

Please don't take forever, darlin'

While my skin still knows the heat

Hurry up the future, baby

Come and find me while the spark is sweet

Post-Chorus

(Sweet) sweet

(Mine) mine

Oh-oh-oh

Let's burn the distance down

Bridge

No map can chart this feeling

No clock can measure want

So book the flight before the frost comes

Before another season's gone

Meet me somewhere in the middle

Don't let the calendar decide

I've got fire left inside this soul

And plenty more alive inside

So hurry up the future, baby

I'm done rehearsing through a phone

Come turn these echoes into touching

Come make this distance flesh and bone

Final Chorus

Come closer through the wires

Let me trace your voice like velvet fire

Come closer through the wires

Let's burn the distance down tonight

Please don't take forever, darlin'

Before these bones give out on me

I want your hands, not just your memory

Of everything we meant to be

Hurry up the future, baby

While my skin still knows the heat

I ain't got time to waste on maybe

Come and find me while the spark is sweet

Outro

(Sweet) sweet

(Mine) mine

Oh-oh-oh

Come find me while the spark is sweet

Burn the distance down

Burn the distance down

Come closer through the wires...

And come find me