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Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Jun-20 - 11:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: So Far Away (Reggie Garrett)
Subject: Lyr Add: So Far Away (Reggie Garrett)
A powerful song, particularly relevant now
So Far Away
In his hand he flashed a gun
Or could it be you only thought you saw one
I can’t believe that you shot him down
So easily
Just trying to make his way back home
So far away, so far away . . .
And so now you see a threat
In her dark-skinned, teenage silhouette
Oh, I can’t believe that you slammed her down
So easily
Just trying to make her way back home
So far away, so far away . . .
Well, nobody told me
That my life would be this way
I step through that door
And I’ve got Hell and the Devil – to pay
And you don’t know just who I am
And you never really gave a damn
Still, I can’t believe that you shot me dead
So easily
So now, my song fades
So far away, so far away . . .
Just trying to make our way back home
So far away, so far away . . .
(© 2015, R.K. Garrett)
https://lectures.org/2017/10/30/writing-so-far-away/