If I could change one little thing

I would change the distance between you and me

From where you are now, you see

You are just far too far

Even farther than the distance from here to the golden star

Letters just won’t make it

It’s almost impossible to fake it

I don’t know how much more I can take of it

When you are so far away from me

 

You see, you used to be a phone call away

But now it has been days and days

Days and days since I have seen your face

Weeks since I have felt your grace

There is nothing but emptiness in your place

What else is there to fill the space

Now that you are this far away from me

 

Hand in hand, we would walk together

Laughing eyes, there was nothing better

Sidewalk chalk underneath our feet

The corner deli couldn’t be beat in the heat

The door shuffles open, the front bell dings

We’d wait up front until the ol’ fat lady would sing

I'd climb up your knee to rest on your lap

She'd come from the back room with a tap tap tap

You’d introduce me, “Here’s my girl, here she is.”

She’d peer down the counter, “What a pretty little, Miss.”

Those words every time made your false teeth grin

Made me the happiest that I’ve ever been

The happiest because I could see the pride

Shining, twinkling in the corner of your eyes

Those eyes that it has been so long since I’ve seen

So long since you have been away from me

 

Come back, come back, can’t you see

This distance is no good for me

It’s no good for me, it’s no good for you

It is changing everything I am used to

What was once is no more

When I knock, you do not answer the door

When I call, you do not receive

You are missing out on all that I achieve

All that is left for me is to grieve

Disbelief, disbelief

 

Come back, come back, this distance is not right

If I could change it, I would make it slight

Slighter, shorter than it is now

I would find a way to bring you back somehow

But this kind of distance is not one you can measure

It is not one you can trace to acquire buried treasure

It is not a centimeter, an inch, or a mile

It spans farther than the river of the Nile

It is a distance measured within the heart

A distance that begins when a light goes dark

A distance I would change if only I could

I would bear hug you, I would Eskimo kiss you like a granddaughter should

I would do all of the things we used to do

If only, if only I was just not so far away from you