Unknown / Nth

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, sha-la-la, la-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