For all the good you say it does
It feels no better when you've had your say
You may believe it's just because
The words get colder when you're gone away
I thought I understand

What I was to you
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to say I'm just a friend
I don't want to wait around here
'Cos you don't want to feel no pain again
We just lie about it

As we become shadows of ourselves
Some may fear committed lives
I sure am one of them without you
Does it come to you as some surprise
I laid the ground beneath to doubt you
Was it ever girl

Something you could hold
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to say I'm just a friend
I don't want to wait around here
'Cos you don't want to feel no pain again
We just lie about it

As we become shadows of ourselves
I don't want to look away
I don't want to be the one denied
It ain't no fault of mine
Someone, somewhere told you lies
But we don't talk about it
We just become shadows of ourselves


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In the Absence of Sun Lyrics as written by Duncan Sheik

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    Ever considered having a relationship with your best friend that goes beyond friendship, but then you realise that due to complicated affiliations in your current love life, the 'relationship' just won't work out? I used to think of this song as two lovers who have broken up and one of them can't accept that it's over. Five years later, this song resurfaces and it's appeal is different, the meaning construed in another manner. To me, now, it's like two friends denying that they have feelings for each other so that no other external parties will get hurt by their union.

    I dunno, just an idea...

    commondivideon December 24, 2004   Link

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