The Shortest Distance Lyrics

The shortest distance

Between two points

Is a straight line

I feel sometimes

I have devoured

Those miles

Without deviation

Without hesitation

Without the merest hint

The tiniest wink

Towards temptation

So fast have I travelled

There has been no time

To unravel

That other DNA

That pupal carapace

The evolutionary skew

That grew

Regardless of

Desire or age

So

I will slow

Step out

Gaze about

Recall the times I have

Left this trail

To unknowingly pursue

The new

And discovered

You

I should have stopped

To feel the earth

Beneath my feet

Or sift the freshness of

The air

Like wine

Between my teeth

To let cold frosty dawn embrace

My ruddy face

To hold the chips and scars

In high regard

And wonder in amazement

At the

Monumental failures

At how each and every

Blessed curse

Was never less for

Being worse

But was honey for

The hungry soul

It is only now

As I begin

To run out of road

That I am forced against my will

To realise

To know

That this was a finite trip

That every hard

Yard was rife

With consequence

Experience

That my blindness to oblivion

Defined the colours of my life

So

I will slow

Step out

Gaze about

Recall the times I have

Left this trail

To unknowingly pursue

The new

And discovered

You

If by journey's end

I can recall

Each enemy

Each love

Each friend

Then they were miles well-covered;

It was time well-spent

I was never simply me

Alone

I am everyone I've ever known