The Great Divide a song by Noah Kahan on
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About The Great Divide
“The Great Divide” was written in early 2024, performed in full at Kahan’s July 18, 2024 Fenway Park tour stop and teased by Kahan for months on social media. On February 23, 2025, Kahan revealed on Instagram stories that the “The Great Divide,” and subsequently his next album, had been recorded: “Great divide officially recorded and god damn it’s sounding special“ On January 20, 2026, Kahan took to both his main and @thelastofthebugs to reveal the much anticipated January 30 .
The Great Divide Lyrics
[00:11.00] I can't recall the last time that we talked
[00:17.09] About anything but looking out for cops
[00:22.49] We got cigarette burns in the same side of our hands, we ain't friends
[00:28.63] We're just morons, who broke skin in the same spot
[00:34.67] But I've never seen you take a turn that wide
[00:40.62] And I'm high enough to still care if I die
[00:45.81] So I tried to read the thoughts that you'd worked overtime to stop
[00:52.09] You said, "Fuck off," and I said nothin' for a while
[01:00.21] You know I think about you all the time
[01:06.14] And my deep misunderstanding of your life
[01:11.77] And how bad it must have been for you back then
[01:17.69] And how hard it was to keep it all inside
[01:23.25] I hope you settlе down, I hope you marry rich
[01:29.45] I hope you're scarеd of only ordinary shit
[01:35.21] Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin
[01:40.89] And not your soul and what He might do with it
[01:57.30] You inched yourself across the great divide
[02:02.53] While we drove aimlessly along the Twin State line
[02:08.49] I heard nothing but the bass in every ballad that you'd play
[02:14.38] While you swore to God the singer read your mind
[02:20.53] But the world is scared of hesitating things
[02:26.38] Yeah, they only shoot the birds who cannot sing
[02:32.50] And I'm finally aware of how shitty and unfair
[02:37.85] It was to stare ahead like everything was fine
[02:45.65] You know I think about you all the time
[02:51.69] And my deep misunderstanding of your life
[02:58.01] And how bad it must have been for you back then
[03:03.53] And how hard it was to keep it all inside
[03:09.25] I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich (Oh-oh)
[03:15.58] I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit (Oh-oh)
[03:21.10] Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin (Oh-oh)
[03:27.29] And not your soul and what He might do with it
[03:32.09] Ah-oh
[03:39.41] Rage, in small ways
[03:44.93] Did you wish that I could know
[03:48.98] That you'd fade to some place
[03:56.65] I wasn't brave enough to go?
[04:01.45] I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich
[04:07.90] I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit
[04:13.65] Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin
[04:19.93] And not your soul and what He might do with it
[04:49.61] I hope you threw a brick right into that stained glass
[04:56.01] I hope you're with someone who isn't scared to ask
[05:01.41] I hope that you're not losing sleep about what's next
[05:07.49] Or about your soul and what He might do with it
[05:12.86]
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From the album: The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs
