Set The Fire to The Third Bar..

When J joined the army it was really hard for me to get through the day without thinking of him and then later on at night crying and letting it all out.. I had a really hard time accepting the fact that he was doing this for us and our future, the thought of him having left me gave me nightmares.. literally. Although I would put on a happy face, I was really miserable. And so I heard this song and it really comforted me. It's about long distance relationships and the love that they both have for each other even though they're miles away and just how much they long for each other. It's really beautiful.

"Set The Fire to The Third Bar"

I find the map and draw a straight line

Over rivers, farms, and state lines

The distance from 'A' to where you'd be

It's only finger-lengths that I see

I touch the place where I'd find your face

My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar

There is no peace that I've found so far

The laughter penetrates my silence

As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises

Ghosts with just voices

Your words in my memory

Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,

I lay down on the cold ground

I, I pray that something picks me up

And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far

We'd set the fire to the third bar

We'd share each other like an island

Until exhausted, close our eyelids

And dreaming, pick up from

The last place we left off

Your soft skin is weeping

A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,

I lay down on the cold ground

And I, I pray that something picks me up

and sets me down in your warm arms

I'm miles from where you are,

I lay down on the cold ground

and I, I pray that something picks me up

and sets me down in your warm arms