Beside You
Five Seconds of Summer Lyrics

Beside You by Five Seconds of Summer is a song about longing for someone who is far away. The singer is packing up and leaving for another world - perhaps both literally and metaphorically - and he doesn't want to go. The lyrics suggest that he's leaving someone behind who he cherishes deeply: "The silent words are hard to speak, when your thoughts are all I see." This line captures the sentiment that sometimes we can be so overwhelmed by our emotions that we can't find the words to express them.

The chorus is particularly poignant. It describes two people falling asleep under the same sky, to the beat of their hearts at the same time. They are close, but still feel far away from each other. The repetition of the line "Can you hear me?" captures the longing to be heard, seen, and understood by the person that the singer misses. The second half of the chorus suggests that the woman in question is also struggling with her own feelings, lying awake while the singer tries to find the words to say. The final line of the chorus is a simple but powerful declaration that the singer just wishes he was beside her.

The bridge of the song brings us back to the idea of being in different places, but still sharing a connection: "There are pieces of us both, under every city light, and they're shining as we fade into the night." This line suggests that even though they may be physically apart, they carry a piece of each other with them wherever they go.