"Far Away" genre: Folk
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	Existential crisis of a Toronto accountant
	CD: The Courtier's Manuscript   Label: BeeDeeCee Productions Credits: Brian Campbell: Music & Lyrics, Guitar, Voice
	Story Behind the Song Loneliness is the most common form of cancer in the contemporary urban environment. What I describe here is almost a terminal case. An original working title of this piece was "Toronto Life". I was born and raised in Toronto, the lyrics of this song were adapted from a poem written there; that poem, called "Snap Crackle Apocolypse", is to be found in my poetry collection available at www.briancampbell.org. The song was inspired by a riff from the British guitarist John Renbourne. Lyrics FAR AWAY Words & Music © Brian Campbell 2002 The sun rises in the morning On yet another day -- You get up same time as normal Why does everything seem so far away? When you brush your teeth, there's an echo All around the room -- And when you sit down to your breakfast cereal An icy eye Stares up from your silver spoon Put on your favourite suit it seems like it's on loan you look down at your hands they seem not to be your own this morning you could swear your whole body doesn't belong to you So you buy the Globe and Mail melt in the subway crowd hold onto the silver pole in a rocking screeching car and skim through black print about suicide about fratricide about genocide and the millions of unemployed Maybe it's the years of living alone They too can take their toll Even when together We were very much all alone I nourished your illusions You helped to nourish mine Soon we were both talking to mirages How did we ever let ourselves go so blind? Voices round the coffee maker Gossip about the boss A chat about sports at lunch The rest of the day shrouded in thin blue columns of profit and loss Then home to TV another day gone by another day gone by another day gone by they go by so swiftly, it seems flickering images in soon forgotten dreams. . . The sun rises in the morning On yet another day -- You get up same time as normal Why does everything seem so far away? Why does everything seem so far away? Why does everything seem so far away?

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