More songs by Corey Kent
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Description
Centimetres, acres and numbers quickly lose their meaning here - because what is important cannot be put into a table. You can repaint your house, put a photo in a frame, but the laughter of friends, the taste of beer in the heat or the emptiness of fishing without your grandfather - all this escapes the ruler. The song sounds like a reminder: life is measured not in square metres, but in the ‘dash’ between dates. And this dash can hold love, longing, and that very infinity that cannot be recorded in numbers.
Lyrics and translation
Original
You can add up all the acres or the square feet of a house
The inch marks on the door frame are probably painted over now
But everything about back home that you still treasure
You can't measure
12 ounces in a cold one, 24 cold ones in a case
We found out that one too many was the three or four we drank
And how much we all laugh when we get back together
You can't measure
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I'm gone fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
But in the end, it isn't
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
Yeah, all the things that really matter you can't measure
It's not an eight by ten
It's a memory in a frame
It's not how you spend your money
It's how you spend your days
And how much time you lost when you knew better
No, you just can't measure
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I go fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
But in the end, it isn't
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
All the things that really matter you can't measure
Yeah, the measure of a man (yeah), six feet in the grave
It ain't how long he lived
Nah, it's what he did with the dash between them dates
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I go fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
These days it sure feels different
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
All the things that really matter you can't measure
No, you just can't measure
English translation
You can add up all the acres or the square feet of a house
The inch marks on the door frame are probably painted over now
But everything about back home that you still treasure
You can't measure
12 ounces in a cold one, 24 cold ones in a case
We found out that one too many was the three or four we drank
And how much we all laugh when we get back together
You can't measure
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I'm gone fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
But in the end, it isn't
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
Yeah, all the things that really matter you can't measure
It's not an eight by ten
It's a memory in a frame
It's not how you spend your money
It's how you spend your days
And how much time you lost when you knew better
No, you just can't measure
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I go fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
But in the end, it isn't
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
All the things that really matter you can't measure
Yeah, the measure of a man (yeah), six feet in the grave
It ain't how long he lived
Nah, it's what he did with the dash between them dates
Like how much I miss my grandpa
Every time that I go fishin'
How heaven seems so far away
These days it sure feels different
If you wanna know how much I love her
Just add up all the days left in forever
All the things that really matter you can't measure
No, you just can't measure