You know the distance never made a difference to me

I swam a lake of fire, I'd have walked across the floor of any sea

Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen

And all that we believe

So I thought you were like an angel to me.

Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy

If there were scarlet flags

They washed out in the mind of me

Where a blinding light shone on you every night

And either side of my sleep

Where you were held frozen like an angel to me.

It ain't the being alone

Sha-la-la

It ain't the empty home, baby

Sha-la-la

You know I'm good on my own

Sha-la-la

Sha-la-la, baby, you know it's more the being unknown

So much of the living, love, is the being unknown.

You called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me

You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth

And what's left of it, I listen to it tick

Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me.

Do you know, I could break beneath the weight

Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you?

That I'd walk so far just to take

The injury of finally knowing you.

It ain't the being alone

Sha-la-la

It ain't the empty home, baby

Sha-la-la

You know I'm good on my own

Sha-la-la

Sha-la-la, baby

You know it's more the being unknown

And there are some people, love, who are better unknown.