Further Away- Ben Howard
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My father he told me what goes around,
Comes, comes around againThe faces you see on the way upAre those on the way back down, my friendBut you've been climbing shoulders around youTrying to reach the big blue skyAnd all above you is just the blackness, darlingAnd everything below you diesAnd everything below you dies
You've been growing upYou've been growing onFurther away from us now
You've been growing upYou've been growing onFurther away from us now
And nobody gives a fuck about youTell you it's a damn shameThe prettiest eyes in the whole worldThe same fool in the same gameThe same fool in the same game
You've been growing upYou've been growing onFurther away from us now
You've been growing upYou've been growing onFurther away from us now
You've been growing upYou've been growing onFurther away from us now
As I grow older, the desire I had before my 30's to go on my own journey away from family has quieted. The influence of media and society got me, and probably a lot of other teenagers, to believe I needed to distance myself from my family in order to find who I was. Funny thing is.. the more I kept running, the more lost I truly became. You can throw away love and go for your own selfish dreams; but in the end responsibility and family connections are what end up truly feeling fulfilling. Don't run, stay. Don't separate, learn boundaries. Don't pull your love away, love more. Love yourself and those around you so much that you don't need to dream about being anywhere else. Be grateful for the lives around you and how they shaped you become who you are. If you keep running away towards a distant "light", you may be chasing forever in the darkness.