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Sorry – Closer (2022) | Track profile | Dork

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Anywhere but Here
Closer

TRACK

Closer

Release date: 6th October 2022

From Anywhere but Here

Track 8

3:47

Alternative Music

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About This Track

'Closer' by Sorry is a 2022 alternative track from the album 'Anywhere but Here'. The lyrics keep circling a tightening sense of harm and dread, with images of burning and contagion, and a repeated return to family and closeness, summed up by the line “Closer to my mother”. It reads like a frantic inventory of what is coming nearer, from bodily ruin to the clock, and ends by stressing again that same pull towards home.

"Closer" is a track by Sorry, from the album Anywhere but Here, released 6th October 2022. The track is 3:47 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Sorry.

About the Artist

Sorry

Sorry

Lyrics

Closer

Closer to burning my thumb
On this cigarette
Closer to the clock striking 12 again
Closer to my mother
Closer to my friends
Closer to getting closer to getting further back again

Closer to the ether
Closer to the worms
Closer to the cancer
Closer to the womb
Closer to my mother
Closer to my friends
Closer to getting burned on this cigarette

I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I would be that guy
I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I could be that guy

Closer to the answer
Closer to the keel
Closer to knowing
I'll never really know how you feel

Closer to being empty
Closer to being used
Closer to the table, then
Closer to the fools

Closer to my actions
Closer to my fears
Closer to that high-pitched noise that rings in my ears
Closer to my mother
Closer to my end
Closer to getting
Closer to doing it all over again

I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I would be that guy
I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I would be that guy

I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I would be that guy
I never wanted to be that guy
I never thought I would be that

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Track details

From Anywhere but Here

3:472022

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Album

Anywhere but Here

7th October 2022

Track number

8

Release year

2022

1Let the Lights On
3:04
2Tell Me
4:37
3Key to the City
3:41
4Willow Tree
2:32

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Sorry — Closer

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Fallen Tears of Internal Anguish

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Everything Is Falling Apart

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Path of Nothingness

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Complete Isolation

Days of Uselessness

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Never Reached Dreams (Hanging Garden Cover)

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No Tears (Alt. Version)
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2:46
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5There’s so Many People That Want to Be Loved

6I Miss the Fool

8Closer

3:47

10Hem of the Fray

11Quit While You’re Ahead

12Screaming in the Rain

—Quit While You're Ahead

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Asha Lorenz, Louis O’Bryen
Producer: Adrian Utley, Ali Chant, Asha Lorenz, Louis O’Bryen

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Sorry have dropped two new tracks, 'Billy Elliot' and 'Alone in Cologne'

Sorry have dropped two new tracks, 'Billy Elliot' and 'Alone in Cologne'

The tour begins next week in Bristol, UK, before heading to Europe.

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Sorry - COSPLAY

Sorry - COSPLAY

'COSPLAY' treats role-play as structure, not costume.

4 Nov 2025 • 10:03 am

Sorry - Anywhere But Here

Sorry - Anywhere But Here

‘Anywhere But Here’ is a perfect addition to Sorry's discography and a perfect analysis of modern attitudes and anxieties.

5 Oct 2022 • 11:21 am

Sorry - 925

Sorry - 925

The world that Sorry have created here is an addictive and satisfying one.

27 Mar 2020 • 10:00 am

Sorry: Workin' 925

Sorry: Workin' 925

Are you ready for a new favourite band? North London's Sorry are low-key cult faves with an immense banger-ratio, and a stonking debut album.

24 Mar 2020 • 2:45 pm

London newcomers Sorry debut their second single - watch ‘2 Down 2 Dance’

London newcomers Sorry debut their second single - watch ‘2 Down 2 Dance’

It's a great tune.

21 Feb 2018 • 1:58 pm