
Horizontal Hug
V8
03:422026-02-17
6
Folk, Warm, Acoustic Guitar, Finger-picked, Female
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[Intro]
Verse 1
If you think of me at all tonight
Don’t make it heavy, don’t make it right
Make me soft, make me strange and small
Something warm you could lean on when the walls fall
I’m a joke you forgot but still makes you grin
A glass half full with a laugh poured in
Close your eyes, taste the salt in the air
There’s a breeze in your hair, there’s a world still there
Pre-Chorus
Today might bruise you blue and thin
But wonder’s got a way of sneaking in
Be kind to yourself, let yourself breathe
Even broken hearts still hear the sea
Chorus
(HOOK)
So if you think of me at all
I’m a horizontal hug when you hit the floor
A chinchilla rug by an open door
A giggle in a jug, fortified wine
Warm in your hands, a little bit mine
Yeah if you think of me tonight
Don’t make it sharp, don’t make it true
Just make it soft, make it kind
I was better for knowing you
Verse 2
I try to stay away, God knows I do
Distance is a rule I keep breaking in two
It’s more than your voice on a crackling line
I feel you close like borrowed time
I don’t know where, I don’t know when
Or what this is that we’re living in
But you feel real, you feel just
You feel like something I can trust
Pre-Chorus
Some lessons don’t arrive with proof
They just show up and rearrange you
And even exile has an end
When friendship learns how not to bend
Chorus
(HOOK)
So if you think of me at all
I’m a horizontal hug when you hit the floor
A chinchilla rug by an open door
A giggle in a jug, fortified wine
Warm in your hands, a little bit mine
Yeah if you think of me tonight
Don’t make it sharp, don’t make it true
Just make it soft, make it kind
I was better for knowing you
Bridge
Maybe we’re only near in spirit now
Maybe that’s the safest way somehow
Only God knows the reason why
Your name still catches in my spine
I don’t need more than what we were
A spark, a line, a quiet blur
Just promise me when you’re alone
You won’t forget you’re not alone
Final Chorus (HOOK – lifted)
So if you think of me at all
I’m a horizontal hug, nothing more
A chinchilla rug on a cold hard floor
A laugh held up in a wine-dark glow
Something warm you already know
Yeah if you think of me tonight
Let it rest, let it be
I was real, you were true
I’m better for knowing you
I’m better for knowing you
