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#26

This one makes my heart hurt

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#27

Oh god, it makes me weep!

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#28
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#32

Iā€™ve said it before, but ā€œAnd I need you more than I want you / And I want you for all timeā€ is one of the ā€“ if not the ā€“ the song lyrics ever.

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#33

I always wondered whether The Bones of You (the song on the radio takes him back ā€œAnd Iā€™m five years ago / And three thousand miles awayā€) nods back to this.

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#34

It absolutely is.

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I mean, itā€™s no ā€œHey there, Delilah / Whatā€™s it like in New York city? / Iā€™m a thousand miles away / But, girl, tonight you look so prettyā€

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But then, what is?

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#35

Cā€™mon feet, start moving, you gotta get me there.
(Yeah, I know 25 miles isnā€™t very far but heā€™s been walking for three days already. Tamworthā€™s best-known Edwin must be knackered.)

(The next song that YouTube plays is, fittingly, Love Is My Destination.)

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#36

Agreed. I wrote an ode to that song when he died and just became obsessed with that line more than ever.

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#37

Thread has made me listen to some old Richard Hawley tracks which, although not specifically ā€˜long-distance loveā€™ songs, I would class as yearning/mournful. A couple of belters from Trueloveā€™s Gutter and the title track of Coleā€™s Corner which, for me, is one of the greatest songs this century.

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#38

That sounds interesting. What did you say about the song?

#39

I just did like a pastiche of it I think and then wrote about the UK equivalent of a linesmen in an utterly unromantic way

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#40

One of my favourite REM tracks of all time. Itā€™s so, so beautiful.

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