♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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 You're 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 colors 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 On either side of my sleep But you're 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 Baby, you know it's more than being unknown Much of the living love is the being unknown ♪ You called me angel for the first time My heart leapt for you You smile now I can see It's pieces still stuck in your teeth And what's left of it I'll listen to it take Every tedious beat Going unknown as any angel to me ♪ Do you know I could breath beneath the weight Of the goodness, love I still carry for you And I'd walk so far just to take The injury of finally knowing, yeah 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 Baby, you know it's more than being unknown And there are some people, love, who are better unknown ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪