"You'll Go from Me"

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As part of my Collection Audit project, I'm listening to the Zombie Heaven discs again.  I just listened to the third disc, and I noticed the lines "I want to hold you tight / While the warmth of the night surrounds us" in "You'll Go from Me" (the demo of what became "Don't Go Away").  I'm not sure of those line breaks, though.

In any case, these lines are fairly similar to some in "Maybe after He’s Gone," which - like "You'll Go from Me" - was written by Chris White.  The last verse is:  "I feel so cold; I'm on my own / As the night folds in around me / Night surrounds me; I'm alone."

The situations are the same:  night is surrounding the speaker/singer, but there's a difference in temperature.  In "You'll Go from Me" and "Don't Go Away" (the lyrics are the same; I think it's only the structure that's different), it's "the warmth of the night" because the speaker/singer is with a girl who loves him, but the speaker/singer in "Maybe after He's Gone" is "so cold" because he's alone.