Closer Now

Ohhhh, this song... good stuff. I think it's about loving someone from a far. He is confused and frustrated...

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.

My favorite verses of this song is:

"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.

yay i got the first post! this song probably means that he likes to be on his own just to kind of sort his life out, and likes to be alone, its calming and the girl might understand that thats how he has his way so she lives him on his own to lead the pattern of his life. It's a very nice way of talking about couples in a way. it's about understanding each other and doing the right thing to make each other happy. But closer now, doesnt mean going on his own all the time, there will be times when you need to be with your lover so if he or she needs him or her then they will be together. It's quite romantic but just singing it in a different way.

this song is soooooooooo amazing and lovely 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 think in this song tom asking his bandmate tim oxley to understand him why he some times goes alone and he know tim will understand him in the end and never leave him just like that because he won't be alnoe all the time he needs him but love to goaway alone sometimes ( i believe you might stumble and come closer now)

Like so many songs it can mean what you need or want it to mean.

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.

I like to wake alone 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

Sorry for my English, I do not speak very well!

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!