Love from a Distance
Podbean Episode Description for "Love from a Distance":
Love from a Distance
Sometimes becoming a better person costs you the relationships built on the old you. This song explores the painful choice between self-preservation and connection - when setting boundaries means losing your children, and healing yourself creates distance you never wanted.
Sung in Jamaican patois because some truths need a different voice to be told.
LYRICS:
Two likkle bwoy an dem laugh light up mi days
Fifteen an fourteen, when life start blaze
Mi try mi best wid di tools mi did get
From a broken man, mi still cyaan forget
Mi build dem up, though mi neva know how
Den twenty year pass, dem big man now
But 2020 come, bun dung di yard
Mi heart did mash up, life get hard
Everyting a mash up, mi barely a stand
Mi finally seh no when di world demand
Mi find mi backbone when yuh want mi fi bend
But sometime fi heal, yuh lose in di end
Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space
Mi a learn fi stand while di link lose pace
Mi find mi voice, mi draw mi line
When yuh want di old mi, but mi haffi survive
Love from a distance, love from a distance
Mi a honor yuh borders through all di resistance
Some bridge cyaan mend inna dis life
But mi love yuh from far, dat a di price
Timo seh him miss wi, reach out pon di line
Mi offer wisdom, but it get decline
Him tek mi wrong, tink mi turn mi back
Mi try explain, but him nah hear dat
Nils want answers, want mi small an tame
Want di old doormat fi tek di blame
But mi just learn boundary, just learn fi rise
Mi ask fi context — dat mash up di ties
Mi haffi choose fi live or sit an duck
Keep peace an mash up mi soul, or try mi luck
No third road inna dat storm weh blow
Lose mi pickney or lose mi — both hurt mi so
Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space
Mi a learn fi stand while di link lose pace
Mi find mi voice, mi draw mi line
When yuh want di old mi, but mi haffi survive
Love from a distance, love from a distance
Mi a honor yuh borders through all di resistance
Some bridge cyaan mend inna dis life
But mi love yuh from far, dat a di price
Unuh a arrow mi fling inna di breeze
Cyaan tell weh yuh land, cyaan beg yuh please
Unuh big man now, mek big man choice
Mi respect dat, even when mi voice
Dem neva mean harm, dem just neva know
Mi parents, mi, maybe unuh too
All a wi a try wid di likkle we get
Just a do wi best, cyaan regret
Four year now an di silence stay
But mi nah bitter, mi nah count day
Mi wouldn’t even know how fi start again
But mi love yuh from yah so, mi sons, mi fren
Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space
Four year strong an still no trace
If di bridge can mend, mi cyaan seh
But mi love yuh from far, an mi okay
Love from a distance, love from a distance
No bitterness, no victim, just acceptance
Some loss permanent, dat a di truth
But mi love yuh from far
Mi love yuh...
I wouldn't even know how fi start
But mi love yuh
Reflection: Not every relationship survives growth. Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is love someone from exactly where they've asked you to stand - even when that distance breaks your heart.
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