Summary
Almost There is the correct closing move for the release because it turns the album's whole logic into a final spatial-emotional phrase. The cycle has repeatedly worked through partial understanding, delayed reveal, incomplete arrival, and listener-built meaning. This title gathers that method into one last condition: not nowhere, not fully there, but near enough for desire and interpretation to remain active.
Lyrics
I have waited in the quiet
With the whole room holding breath
I have kept the little promise
That I never quite confessed
There are lights along the distance
There is thunder through the wall
There is something getting nearer
There is something wanting all
And I know it sounds like madness
To be shaken by a sign
But I have carried this forever
Like your heartbeat under mine
Come on, come on
One step closer now
Come on, come on
Don’t let the moment down
I can feel it, I can feel it
Like a door about to tear
Come on, come on
We are almost there
Every inch is a beginning
Every second has a name
Every breath I try to swallow
Comes back burning just the same
There are ghosts behind my shoulders
There are years inside my hands
There are all the nearly-moments
That the heart still understands
And I rise before I mean to
And I speak before I think
There are strangers in my bloodstream
There is fire beneath the sink
Come on, come on
One step closer now
Come on, come on
Don’t let the moment down
I can feel it, I can feel it
Like a sky about to tear
Come on, come on
We are almost there
The walls are gone
The floor is gone
My name is gone
My voice is gone
I am every hand
I am every lung
I am every old man
Who was ever young
I am all the wanting
I am all the pain
I am all the waiting
Coming back again
Now the world is running narrow
Now the dark is turning wide
Now the thing I dreamed in silence
Has a pulse and has a side
Do not ask me to be careful
Do not tell me to sit still
There are lives less close to heaven
Than this climbing of the hill
And if I sound like I am praying
Then I’m praying, let me be
There are moments made for reason
This was never one of these
Come on, come on
One step closer now
Come on, come on
Don’t let the moment down
I can feel it, I can feel it
Like the whole world stripped bare
Come on, come on
We are almost there
Come on, come on
One more breath, one more try
Come on, come on
Lift it up into the sky
I can feel it, I can feel it
Every joy I couldn’t share
Come on, come on
We are almost there
And when it finally happened
I was no one, I was all
Just a man in his front room
Screaming at the football
History
As the final track, it serves more as capstone than as a wholly separate mechanism. The album needed to end in a phrase that resonated directly with its own title-condition, and Almost There does that with unusual economy.
Meaning
The song is about incompletion as final form. It closes the release by showing that the point was never to resolve every ambiguity, but to leave the listener in the charged space just before full understanding or arrival.
