Faraway So Close

[Verse 1]

Empty out your pockets and toss the lot upon the floor

All those treasures, my friend, you don't need them anymore

Your days are all through dying, they gave all their ghosts away

So kiss close all of your wounds and call living life a day

[Chorus 1]

For the planets gravitate around you

And the stars shower down around you

And the angels in heaven adore you

And the saints, they all stand and applaud you

So faraway, so faraway and yet so close

[Verse 2]

Say farewell to the passing of the years

Though all your sweet goodbyes will fall upon deaf ears

Kiss so softly the mouths of the ones you love

Beneath the September moon and the heavens above

[Chorus 2]

And the world will turn without you

And history will soon forget about you

But the heavens they will reward you

And the saints will be there to escort you

So faraway, so faraway and yet so close

[Bridge]

Do not grieve at the passing of mortality

For life's but a thing of terrible gravity

[Chorus 1]

And the planets gravitate around you

And the stars shower down about you

And the angels in heaven adore you

While those saints, they all stand and applaud you

So faraway, so faraway and yet so close