Podbean Episode Description for "Love from a Distance":

Love from a Distance

Sometimes becoming a better person costs you the relationships built on the old you. This song explores the painful choice between self-preservation and connection - when setting boundaries means losing your children, and healing yourself creates distance you never wanted.

Sung in Jamaican patois because some truths need a different voice to be told.

LYRICS:

Two likkle bwoy an dem laugh light up mi days Fifteen an fourteen, when life start blaze Mi try mi best wid di tools mi did get From a broken man, mi still cyaan forget Mi build dem up, though mi neva know how Den twenty year pass, dem big man now But 2020 come, bun dung di yard Mi heart did mash up, life get hard

Everyting a mash up, mi barely a stand Mi finally seh no when di world demand Mi find mi backbone when yuh want mi fi bend But sometime fi heal, yuh lose in di end

Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space Mi a learn fi stand while di link lose pace Mi find mi voice, mi draw mi line When yuh want di old mi, but mi haffi survive Love from a distance, love from a distance Mi a honor yuh borders through all di resistance Some bridge cyaan mend inna dis life But mi love yuh from far, dat a di price

Timo seh him miss wi, reach out pon di line Mi offer wisdom, but it get decline Him tek mi wrong, tink mi turn mi back Mi try explain, but him nah hear dat Nils want answers, want mi small an tame Want di old doormat fi tek di blame But mi just learn boundary, just learn fi rise Mi ask fi context — dat mash up di ties

Mi haffi choose fi live or sit an duck Keep peace an mash up mi soul, or try mi luck No third road inna dat storm weh blow Lose mi pickney or lose mi — both hurt mi so

Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space Mi a learn fi stand while di link lose pace Mi find mi voice, mi draw mi line When yuh want di old mi, but mi haffi survive Love from a distance, love from a distance Mi a honor yuh borders through all di resistance Some bridge cyaan mend inna dis life But mi love yuh from far, dat a di price

Unuh a arrow mi fling inna di breeze Cyaan tell weh yuh land, cyaan beg yuh please Unuh big man now, mek big man choice Mi respect dat, even when mi voice Dem neva mean harm, dem just neva know Mi parents, mi, maybe unuh too All a wi a try wid di likkle we get Just a do wi best, cyaan regret

Four year now an di silence stay But mi nah bitter, mi nah count day Mi wouldn’t even know how fi start again But mi love yuh from yah so, mi sons, mi fren

Mi a love yuh from far, a yuh choose di space Four year strong an still no trace If di bridge can mend, mi cyaan seh But mi love yuh from far, an mi okay Love from a distance, love from a distance No bitterness, no victim, just acceptance Some loss permanent, dat a di truth But mi love yuh from far Mi love yuh...

I wouldn't even know how fi start But mi love yuh

Reflection: Not every relationship survives growth. Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is love someone from exactly where they've asked you to stand - even when that distance breaks your heart.

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