It's lonliest when you're here It's quietly when you're right beside me I don't say it to hurt you I just miss the touch of his hand The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave, and start all over But I like fingertips on my face The glances I can retrace in my mind The holding onto me so I feel it and fall into it Chase the memories away I know I'm not the same, but I'm wishful And I'm strained and strange And though I won't complain I know I stray, I know I stay An ocean away A woman at bay She shoots up a flare and beackons him near And the closer you get The safer I am But the further I run to hide me in the dark and The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave Yes, The lonliness is better near now Than to satisfy the crave, and start all over But I like fingertips on my face The glances I can retrace in my mind The holding onto me so I feel it and fall into it Chase the memories away I know I'm not the same