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Distant Past by Everything Everything

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Everything Everything

Distant Past

Release date: 3rd July 2025

From Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition)
Track 2
3:42
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About This Track

Everything Everything build 'Distant Past' around a simple, propulsive rhythm and robot-processed vocal samples that give the track a mechanical, almost inhuman quality. The song moves at pace, its energy relentless, whilst the production sits somewhere between pop and something altogether stranger. Jonathan Higgs sings of regression and escape, his lyrics collapsing evolutionary time into a single desperate plea: the repeated refrain asks for permission to abandon the present entirely, to retreat into something older and simpler. The imagery is deliberately grotesque. Higgs describes physical degradation and transformation with the matter-of-factness of someone narrating a fever dream, limbs severed and bodies failing, all set against the song's bright, almost cheerful momentum. There is a tension between the brightness of the arrangement and the darkness of what is being sung, between the desire to go backwards and the knowledge that such escape is impossible. The result is unsettling in a way that feels intentional, a track that refuses to settle into comfort even as it insists, over and over, that comfort is all it wants.

"Distant Past" is a single by Everything Everything, from the album Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition), released 3rd July 2025. The track is 3:42 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 18 articles about Everything Everything.

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Everything Everything

Everything Everything

Lyrics

Distant Past

Drag my tongue across the sand
So happy just to crawl across the land

Soon I'll be the best around
I'm gonna keep my plunder underground

Hard flesh, cold against the rain
Dust billowing around my brazen brain

Saw off all my stinking limbs
Blood dripping down my sunken monkey chin

Baby can you leave it in the (distant past)
Baby can you leave it in the (distant past)
Girl I'm from the very very (distant past)
Girl I'm from the very very (distant past)
Baby can leave me in the (distant past)
Baby can leave me in the (distant past)
Girl I wanna take you to the (distant past)
Girl I wanna take you to the (distant past)

Take me to the distant past
I want to go back
Save me from the distant past
I want this so bad

Take me to the distant past
I want to go back
Save me from the distant past
I want this so bad

Two thumbs, I cross the Rubicon
Slack-jawed but you'll never be passing it on

Plug hole, down the drain you go
Your body never made it past the snow

Canine, fangs up out my throat
You're bleeding over Eden like a goat

Tall blade, a Triffid in every field
I'm blooming like a fuming human shield

Baby can you leave it in the (distant past)
Baby can you leave it in the (distant past)
Girl I'm from the very very (distant past)
Girl I'm from the very very (distant past)
Baby can leave me in the (distant past)
Baby can leave me in the (distant past)
Girl I wanna take you to the (distant past)
Girl I wanna take you to the (distant past)

Take me to the distant past
I want to go back
Save me from the distant past
I want this so bad

Take me to the distant past
I want to go back
Save me from the distant past
I want this so bad

Past!
The past!
I'm back!
I'm bad!

Take me to the distant past
I want to go back
Save me from the distant past
I want this so bad

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Track details

From Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition)

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Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition)
Get To Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition)
Everything Everything
4th July 2025
Track number
2
Release year
2025
  1. 1To The Blade
    4:14
  2. 2Distant Past
    3:42
  3. 3Get To Heaven
    3:44
  4. 4Regret
    3:23

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Alex Robertshaw, Jeremy Pritchard, Jonathan Higgs, Michael Spearman
    Producer
    Everything Everything, Stuart Price
    Engineer
    Everything Everything, Tom A.D Fuller
    Bass
    Jeremy Pritchard
    Drums
    Michael Spearman
    Guitar
    Alex Robertshaw, Jeremy Pritchard, Jonathan Higgs
    Keyboards
    Tom A.D Fuller
    Additional Production
    Tom A.D Fuller
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Luke Gibbs
    Background Vocals
    Jonathan Higgs
    Baritone Vocals
    Jeremy Pritchard
    Mastering Engineer
    Tim Young
    Mixing Engineer
    Cenzo Townshend
    Percussion
    Michael Spearman
    Programmer
    Alex Robertshaw, Jonathan Higgs
    Synthesizer
    Alex Robertshaw
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    18 Jun 2021 • 10:34 am
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    Everything Everything have a brand new single, 'Supernormal', and a video that will give us all nightmares

    Seriously, guys, this is the kind of stuff that wakes us up at 4am.

    10 Mar 2021 • 7:24 pm
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    News

    Everything Everything have dropped a new video for ‘Arch Enemy': "We let our imagination run wild"

    It's from their new album.

    27 May 2020 • 10:16 pm
    Everything Everything, Jon Hopkins, Tom Misch and Alexis Taylor have announced new London WarChild shows
    News

    Everything Everything, Jon Hopkins, Tom Misch and Alexis Taylor have announced new London WarChild shows

    They'll play the dates in the capital next month.

    3 Oct 2018 • 10:51 am
    Everything Everything are going to close Liverpool Music Week 2017
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    Everything Everything are going to close Liverpool Music Week 2017

    Everything Everything are going to headline the closing party for Liverpool Music Week.

    1 Sept 2017 • 1:42 pm
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