From the recording The Island - Part One
“Nothing Is Real When I’m Away From You” is the fifth track on The Island – Part One, and it’s one of the album’s darker detours—half confession, half fever-dream.
The song opens with a sudden jolt of momentum: a call, a fall, and the sense that reality can’t be trusted once the ground gives way. “Baby Blue” becomes the one fixed point in the blur—something to search for when everything else feels unreal.
There’s a sharp, cinematic twist in the middle: a trip to Farmington Hills with a guitar and a name on a note, like a mission that shouldn’t exist but does anyway. Underneath it all runs the same current: guilt, self-erasure, and a desperate need to be held back from drifting too far. By the end, it turns into a plea—hold me down, hold me now—until I can find what’s real again.
Stian
Lyrics
I got the call a day in May
I took it all, nothing really matters when you fall
I got a grip on what to do
What to expect, but I didn’t really have a clue
Where are you?
I need to find my Baby Blue
Nothing is real
When I’m away from you
Take me
I do not deserve to be around
Anymore
Hold me down
I don’t think that I can find the shore
I took a trip to
Farmington Hills
With my guitar
And a note with the name of the man I was supposed to kill
My first and only one
This is a footnote in the song
But nothing is wrong
When you don’t belong
Take me
I do not deserve to be around
Anymore
Hold me now
I don’t think that I can find the shore
Tell me
How can I deserve to be around here
Do you have a place for me in hell?
Such a place would suit me well
Take me
I do not deserve to be around
Anymore
Hold me down
I don’t think that I deserve to be
Anymore
I need to find my Baby Blue