I always hear Farther Away as the after effects of a relationship gone bad, and ending in a horrible way.

When you're completely in love with someone, but they don't treat you right and you are so far in denial that you don't want to admit it...and eventually the relationship ends with a horrible experience against you. You know that what happened was wrong, how you were treated was wrong, and yet you don't want to accept it... "And now I know what I really am...a thief, a whore and a liar."

And all you want is to be with that person still, no matter what they've done to you in the past. Because, for some reason, you love them, and can't seem to let them go. "I run to you, call out your name, I see you there, farther away..."

But at the same time you know that they only treat you badly, and know the denial you are in. ""I'm numb to you, numb and deaf and blind..." But you also don't care as much as you care about being alone, and not feeling any love at all. "I reach but I feel only air at night...not you, not love, just nothing."

And so you try to go on with your life, but nothing seems to work, and you feel trapped within the pain and embrace of your abusive loved one, without the love and comfort. "Try to forget you, but without you, I feel nothing...don't leave me here by myself, I can't breathe."

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