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Horizontal Hug

V8
Gary Robinson
03:42
2026-02-17
4
Folk, Warm, Acoustic Guitar, Finger-picked, Female
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[Intro]
0:06
Verse 1
0:10
If you think of me at all tonight
0:10
Don’t make it heavy, don’t make it right
0:14
Make me soft, make me strange and small
0:17
Something warm you could lean on when the walls fall
0:21
I’m a joke you forgot but still makes you grin
0:24
A glass half full with a laugh poured in
0:28
Close your eyes, taste the salt in the air
0:31
There’s a breeze in your hair, there’s a world still there
0:34
Pre-Chorus
0:38
Today might bruise you blue and thin
0:38
But wonder’s got a way of sneaking in
0:40
Be kind to yourself, let yourself breathe
0:43
Even broken hearts still hear the sea
0:47
Chorus
0:49
(HOOK)
0:49
So if you think of me at all
0:50
I’m a horizontal hug when you hit the floor
0:54
A chinchilla rug by an open door
0:57
A giggle in a jug, fortified wine
1:00
Warm in your hands, a little bit mine
1:04
Yeah if you think of me tonight
1:06
Don’t make it sharp, don’t make it true
1:10
Just make it soft, make it kind
1:13
I was better for knowing you
1:16
Verse 2
1:20
I try to stay away, God knows I do
1:20
Distance is a rule I keep breaking in two
1:23
It’s more than your voice on a crackling line
1:26
I feel you close like borrowed time
1:30
I don’t know where, I don’t know when
1:33
Or what this is that we’re living in
1:36
But you feel real, you feel just
1:39
You feel like something I can trust
1:42
Pre-Chorus
1:46
Some lessons don’t arrive with proof
1:46
They just show up and rearrange you
1:49
And even exile has an end
1:52
When friendship learns how not to bend
1:55
Chorus
1:58
(HOOK)
1:58
So if you think of me at all
1:58
I’m a horizontal hug when you hit the floor
2:02
A chinchilla rug by an open door
2:05
A giggle in a jug, fortified wine
2:09
Warm in your hands, a little bit mine
2:12
Yeah if you think of me tonight
2:15
Don’t make it sharp, don’t make it true
2:18
Just make it soft, make it kind
2:21
I was better for knowing you
2:24
Bridge
2:26
Maybe we’re only near in spirit now
2:26
Maybe that’s the safest way somehow
2:31
Only God knows the reason why
2:35
Your name still catches in my spine
2:38
I don’t need more than what we were
2:41
A spark, a line, a quiet blur
2:44
Just promise me when you’re alone
2:47
You won’t forget you’re not alone
2:50
Final Chorus (HOOK – lifted)
2:54
So if you think of me at all
2:58
I’m a horizontal hug, nothing more
3:01
A chinchilla rug on a cold hard floor
3:04
A laugh held up in a wine-dark glow
3:08
Something warm you already know
3:11
Yeah if you think of me tonight
3:14
Let it rest, let it be
3:17
I was real, you were true
3:20
I’m better for knowing you
3:23
I’m better for knowing you
3:31