Safe Distance

Release Information

Primary Artist: Jonathan Hadley

Release Date: 2025-11-05

ISRC: CBF8B2501197

Record Label: Abrasive Monologues

Writing Credits

Musical Composition:
J E Jackson – 01148658525 – BMI

Lyrics:
J E Jackson – 01148658525 – BMI

Production Credits

Production Credits

Mixing: Jonathan Hadley

Mastering: Jonathan Hadley

Producer(s):
Jonathan Hadley

About this track

“Safe Distance” describes what it’s like to never have a quiet moment between tension and breaking. No where you can escape the shockwave that’s always coming.

Lyrics

It's been so many years
But I think you finally see
The rot is here

Draped across this moment

You say nobody's here
That cares about
If you live or die
I say nobody was there
That cares about
If I burned alive

Caught in the shockwave
There's no safe distance
Always in harms way

You learn to breathe the dust
You learn to bleed the rust

Home couldn't be a safe space
Even in the memories we made
Still fire if its burning slow
Still fire if its burning slow

Doesn't matter how far I go
Still caught in the undertow
Still fire if its burning slow
Still fire if its burning slow
[Spoken]
Have you ever had one of those memories that you fall into so completely that you get trapped there and it just erases everything you've done since? That's kind of how I think about this place sometimes. Somewhere between the dust and the ash...

Somewhere between the flame
And where I call home
The dust is waiting
Though I tried to walk away
There's still no safe distance here

Even in the shockwave I am breathing
Just trying to hold my shape
Even in the undertow
I'm trying to swim away

Home couldn't be a safe space
Even in the memories we made
Still fire if its burning slow
Still fire if its burning slow

Doesn't matter how far I go
Still caught in the undertow
Still fire if its burning slow
Still fire if its burning slow