Closer

Song written by Phil Thornalley & Chris Murrell. Kim Wilde performed backing vocals on this song by Johnny Hates Jazz. It appears on their second album ‘Tall Stories’, released in 1991.


Lyrics

All night I’ve been awake
You on my mind
I made a big mistake
To leave you behind
You know it’s hard to sleep
on a bed of nails
I know that I was wrong
You knew it all along

I was a fool nothing better to do
than fail again and blame it on you
Sometimes I don’t know how I’ll ever get you back
There’s so much I need to say
But you’re so far away

Ooh Just wanna get closer
Ooh Closer to you
Ooh Just wanna get closer, closer
That’s all I wanted to do

So when I wake up
I’ll count every move
I need to make
To get back to you
Who knows if time can heal
All that’s gone before
But in your eyes once more
Lights on a distant shore

Ooh Just wanna get closer
Ooh Closer to you
Ooh Just wanna get closer, closer
That’s all I wanted to do

They say there’s a northern light
Shining out there
They say there’s a happy life
Who can tell me where
They say that love can fly
Like smoke in the air
I don’t care what they say
When you’re so far away

Ooh Just wanna get closer
Ooh Closer to you
Ooh Just wanna get closer, closer
That’s all I wanted to do
Just to be close to you