Long Way To Go

Danceability81%
Energy66%
Acousticness7%
Instrumentalness0%
Speechiness7%
Liveness18%
Valence90%
Tempo126 bpm
KeyC-
Time Sig.4
Loudness-12.77 dB

Long Way To Go by Manatomy is a reflective Manatomy track about growth, desire, and still finding your way forward. With emotional weight and dance pop energy, it captures queer resilience, self awareness, and the journey between messy nights and better mornings. The emotional weight builds through the lyrics rather than the production alone. It is the kind of track that earns repeat listens by saying something real, and the beat is built to carry that weight without overpowering it. The lyrics are below.

Long Way To Go is the distance between wanting and having – the journey that is its own part of the feeling. Vol.4’s most patient emotional track. For queer love song Australia, this one earns its place through emotional specificity.

Long Way To Go earns its place in any gay love song playlist through honest production rather than production polish. The emotion in the lyrics is the point – the beat is built to carry it, not to compete with it. If a line brought you here from search, the lyrics below will confirm you found the right place.

Whether it arrives through a search for a specific lyric or through an algorithm placing it next to the right track, it earns the listen. The emotional specificity in the lyrics is the reason people come back to it.

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Official ISRC: QZMEN2688672

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Lyrics

Listen, listen, listen
Lights blur, late night grind
Spotlight chase, gotta shine
Pressure's on, gotta kill it
Your eyes, babe, that's the realest

Marathon, not a sprint, bro
Escape the maze, gotta flow
They hate we loud, so what
We stand tall, fuck em all, what up?

Whispers fade, judging eyes gone
Now they watch us rise at dawn
Each step, oh, and we own it
Love's a fire, brightly glowing

Stumble, yeah, we lose track
Your hand, babe, brings me back
No fairytale, real and raw
Want it all, every single flaw

Long way to go, yeah, I know
Chill vibes, take it slow
Reach the top, feel it deep
Till we pop, secret we keep

Long way to go, yeah, I know
Chill vibes, take it slow
Reach the top, feel it deep
Till we pop, promise is the key
Promise is the key

Lights blur, late night grind
You by my side, feel so alive
Pressure's on, gotta kill it
Your eyes, babe, that's the realest

Long way to go, yeah, I know
Chill vibes, take it slow
Reach the top, feel it deep
Till we pop, secret we keep

Long way to go, yeah, I know
Chill vibes, take it slow
Reach the top, feel it deep
Till we pop
Promise is the key
Promise is the key
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