One Number Away Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Are you sitting at home, all alone, trying to fall asleep?
Are you staring a hole through your phone, praying that it rings?
Are you watching a movie that you've seen a thousand times?
Or maybe playing some Mayer, getting lost in your favorite lines

[Pre-Chorus]
Well, if you're anything like me
You just might be doing whatever it takes
To drown out the noise
But I just wanna hear your voice

[Chorus]
I’m one number away
From calling to you
I said I was through
But I'm dying, inside

Got my head in a mess
Girl, I confess
I lied when I said
"I'm leaving and not coming back"
Might be the whiskey or the midnight rain
But everywhere I go, I see your face
In my brain, dial it up, everything I wanna say
But I'm still one number away
[Verse 2]
Are you stuck at a red light with a Marlboro Light on your lips?
Does the smoke in your mirror get clearer without my kiss?
Are you changing the station replacing our favorite songs?
Well maybe it's a mistake, hit the brakes on the moving on

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Well, if you're anything like me
You just might be doing whatever it takes
To outrun the storm
But I'm almost out that door

[Chorus]
And I'm one number away
From calling to you
I said I was through
But I'm dying, inside
Got my head in a mess
Girl, I confess
I lied when I said
"I'm leaving and not coming back"
Might be the whiskey or the midnight rain
But everywhere I go, I see your face
In my brain, dial it up, everything I wanna say
But I'm still one number away
[Bridge]
Will you pick up when I call?
Or just forget we loved at all
We don't have to talk
I just wanna hear your voice

[Chorus]
And I'm one number away
From calling you
I said I was through
But I'm dying, inside
Got my head in a mess
Girl, I confess
I lied when I said
"I'm leaving and not coming back"
Might be the whiskey or the midnight rain
But everywhere I go, I see your face
In my brain, dial it up, everything I wanna say
But I'm still one number away

[Outro]
Away, away
Yeah I'm still one number away

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Genius Annotation

Luke on the surface makes this song seem like a classic break-up song, where both parties in the former relationship are trying not to think of the other. Thinking of calling the other, being just one number away and trying to get their mind off of it with mentioned tasks like watching a familiar movie. As time goes on though, the person regrets ending it and “leaving and not coming back.”

However, when the music video was released, it tells a different story. Memories of a happy relationship intermingled with realities of pain, ends in a story that a man’s lover is killed in a car accident while on her way to him, presumably after a fight they had. She’s hit while on the phone with him saying she needs to tell him something, only to be interrupted by the accident. The song can then be interpreted as the man constantly remembering his former lover, regretting and feeling immense guilt when during the fight he said “I’m leaving and not coming back” and wishing over and over again that he could dial her phone and tell her “everything I wanna say” and listen to her voice, just one last time.

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What certifications did this track receive?
Genius Answer

“One Number Away” was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA on June 5, 2019.

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