Distance Makes Lyrics - Maximo 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 blown on the floor 

Within a rectangle of cool green lines 

We watched them in the wall 

We breath beside each other 

The stars, our landmarks 

And we don't use them 

The stars, our 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 behavior 

This morning I saw a blue metal star 

I was on tiptoes high above the back yard 

Competing with the real thing 

It ends up dominating 

The stars, our landmarks 

And we don't use them 

The stars, our landmarks 

You can't swing from them 

Everyone's got their own idea 

Of Utopia and why we're here 

The stars, our landmarks 

And we don't use them 

The stars, our landmarks 

You can't swing from them 

The stars, our landmarks 

They have no function