I believe
You might stumble and come closer
I like to wake alone
To lie and turn to stone
Comfort me, come to me
I won't go on
I like to walk along
To keep my head screwed on
Well I'm the best, so well done me
I won't go on
Believing, believing
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
If I stay then I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
Make time to be
All this and more for me
Well you're the best so well done you
I won't go on
Believing, believing
I believe
You might turn from your love, wait around
If I go then I'm alone
If I stay then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
When you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
I believe
You might turn from your love wait around
If I stay here I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
When you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
If I stay then I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
Woah,
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
You might stumble and come closer
I like to wake alone
To lie and turn to stone
Comfort me, come to me
I won't go on
I like to walk along
To keep my head screwed on
Well I'm the best, so well done me
I won't go on
Believing, believing
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
If I stay then I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
Make time to be
All this and more for me
Well you're the best so well done you
I won't go on
Believing, believing
I believe
You might turn from your love, wait around
If I go then I'm alone
If I stay then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
When you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
I believe
You might turn from your love wait around
If I stay here I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
When you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
If I stay then I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
Woah,
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
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Closer Now Lyrics as written by Richard David Hughes Tom Chaplin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, O/B/O CAPASSO
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I won't go on
Believing, believing
I believe
You might stumble and come closer now
Basically, he's hanging onto this little hope that the person he loves might just stumble (break up with her current boyfriend) and suddenly... fall in love with him. "I believe you might turn from your love."
"If I stay here I'm alone
If I go then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
When you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life"
The girl knows how he feels and still does not go with him... she knows his love is real but she can't feel it.
Very sad song, but lovely... exactly why I love Keane.
"when you care and you cannot feel
and you know that it's for real
so you leave me on my own
to live the pattern of my life"
Personally, I think that he is saying that the person (whoever he's talking about) cares about him, but cannot feel it at an emotional level for some reason (it could be due to depression for example), there's a lack of feeling, some kind of numbness that makes the person choose not to be with him, even though she/he cares. So he's left alone to "live the pattern of my life". I identify myself a lot with this part, because lately (years) even though I may care about someone, I cannot feel, so I can't even handle the energy that it takes to talk with this person, so I just avoid... which can leave this person sad.
when i first heard it i can't stop hearing it
guys it's sooooo beautiful don't miss it.........
and tom wrote the lyrics and the guitar side ,,,,,,
( i believe you might stumble and come closer now)
For me it is about someone I have fallen for but she is already taken. I believe she has similar feelings for me, but she is a good person and won't turn from her love. So I am in a quandary. Should I go away from her and be alone or stay, which will mean waiting on my own without her. I believe if I stay around she might stumble and come closer..which is what I want.
Don't know if that's what the song is really about.. but it works for me.
To lie and turn to stone
Comfort me or come to me
I won't go on
I like to walk alone
To keep my head screwed on
Well I'm the best, so well done me
I won't go on believing, believing
I believe you might turn from your love, wait around
If I go then I'm alone
If I stay then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
Make time to be
All this and more for me
Well you're the best so well done you
I won't go on believing, believing
I believe you might turn from your love, wait around
If I go then I'm alone
If I stay then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
So you leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
I believe you might stumble and come closer now
If I go then I'm alone
If I stay then it will mean
Waiting on my own
It's the pattern of my life
When you care and you cannot feel
And you know that it's for real
You just leave me on my own
To live the pattern of my life
Aaaahhhh...
You might stumble and come closer now
Anyway, I translated this song, and I believe, he describes that he loves a person who lives a life of lies, possibly because, to be with him, but not this.
It is ironic to say that like waking up alone and lying to turn a stone, that's not what he wants, he does not want to wake up alone and do not become a bitter person "stone", because then he kind of says it wants this person to comfort him.
That is, he loves someone and really want this person simply appears in his life. But the person already living another life.
Honestly whenever I listen Keane, I identify with the lyrics! This song is beautiful and adorable ... and looks like my life story!