From the recording Illogical Sounds - Remixes
“Tear Us Apart” is a melancholic, fractured post-punk piece built on emotional tension rather than resolution. The song drifts through atonal guitar lines, unsettled rhythms, and a restrained vocal delivery that mirrors the slow erosion of connection. Nothing explodes here - everything quietly loosens, bends, and slips away.
Focused on distance, hesitation, and the spaces between words, the track explores how relationships often end not through one dramatic moment, but through accumulation: missed timing, unsaid truths, and the weight of silence. The arrangement remains intentionally unstable, avoiding clear hooks or comforting structures, allowing discomfort and fragility to take the lead.
“Tear Us Apart” exists in that fragile place where closeness and separation overlap, where love fades without ever fully disappearing, and where melancholy lingers long after the sound has ended.
Lyrics
Your voice arrives in broken tones,
Like messages I never own.
Every word falls out of place,
A shadow crossing what we face.
I stand too close, I step away,
Nothing here knows how to stay.
We almost touch.
We almost speak.
The room bends softly out of tune,
Time slips sideways in this gloom.
I trace the outline of your doubt,
Then lose myself before I’m found.
Your eyes look past me, not through me,
Like I’m a shape you used to see.
Something pulls and something parts,
Something starts to tear us apart.
We circle words we never say,
They rot slowly in delay.
Every promise comes undone,
Before it knows what it’s become.
I feel you fading while you’re near,
The loudest silence in my ear.
It’s not the fall, it’s not the start,
It’s everything between that hurts.
We don’t break clean, we drift apart,
Until the space does all the work.
Stay too long.
Leave too soon.
The night keeps asking what we are,
But all we give are empty parts.
I hold the shape you used to take,
A fragile form I couldn’t save.
If love is something we outgrow,
Why does it hurt to let it go?
Something bends and something starts,
Slow and quiet, tearing hearts.
No great ending, no last spark,
Just the long way…
Tear us apart.
Your name dissolves inside my mouth,
I turn away, then turn around.
Nothing left to pull me back,
Just distance learning how to last.