The distance   (oliver james)      The sky has lost its color   The sun has turned to gray   At least that’s how it feels to me   Whenever you’re away      I crawl up in the corner   To watch the minutes pass   Each one brings me closer to   The time you’re coming back      (chorus)   I can’t take the distance   I can’t take the miles   I can’t take the time until I next see you smile   I can’t take the distance   And I’m not ashamed   That with every breath I take I’m calling your name   I can’t take the distance      I still believe my feelings   But sometimes I feel too much   I make believe you’re close to me   But it ain’t close enough   Not nearly close enough      (chorus)   I can’t take the distance   I can’t take the miles   I can’t take the time until I next see you smile   I can’t take the distance   And I’m not ashamed   That with every breath I take I’m calling your name         I’d breathe fire and I’d be free   To be by your side, I’d do anything   I can’t take the distance      I will go the distance   I will go the miles   That’s how much you mean to me      (chorus)   I can’t take the distance   I can’t take these miles   I can’t take the time until I next see you smile   I can’t take the distance   And I’m not ashamed   That with every breath I take I’m calling your name   I can’t take the distance