Songs about distance

GateandGarden · #1 06-25-2005, 10:45 AM

I'm trying to get through something at the moment, so I was wondering if y'all could give me the titles of your favorite songs about how much distance (the geographical kind) sucks. And I'll even get specific--how much it sucks that you're in Louisiana and someone you love is in Arkansas. I doubt there's a song about that in particular but I thought I'd put that out there.

Any recommendations welcome and appreciated.

ontheEdgeof17 · #2 06-25-2005, 10:53 AM

Je T'aime Encore (I Love You Still) - Celine

GypsySorcerer · #3 06-25-2005, 11:12 AM

"The Space Between" - Dave Matthews Band

DrummerDeanna · #4 06-25-2005, 12:32 PM

My all-time cheesy favorite song about distance: Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt and um Beabo Bryson?? I don't know - it's from An American Tail - and it's such a great song

Good luck getting through whatever it is you're going through, Hillary - we're all here for ya!

Moony · #5 06-25-2005, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

My all-time cheesy favorite song about distance: Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt and um Beabo Bryson?? I don't know - it's from An American Tail - and it's such a great song

Omigaw! I love that song!!

Sorry, Hil, I really don't know of any songs like that offhand. If I think of some, I'll be sure to let you know.

..wait... there's always Too Far From Texas

WildInTheWind · #6 06-25-2005, 04:38 PM

I can't think of the name of it, that Carol King song, maybe it's called So Far Away? Goes like this:
So far away.....Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know that you're just time away
Long ago I reached for you, and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
How I wish I could, but you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you
But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely
Nothing else to do but close my mind
I sure hope the road don't come to own me
There are so many dreams I have yet to find
But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
And it doesn't help to know you're so far away
You're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away
You're so far away

GODDESS6 · #7 06-25-2005, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WildInTheWind

I can't think of the name of it, that Carol King song, maybe it's called So Far Away? Goes like this:
So far away.....Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know that you're just time away
Long ago I reached for you, and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
How I wish I could, but you're so far away

One more song about moving along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I could only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend it being close to you
But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely
Nothing else to do but close my mind
I sure hope the road don't come to own me
There are so many dreams I have yet to find
But you're so far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
And it doesn't help to know you're so far away
You're so far away
Yeah, you're so far away
You're so far away

becky, i love this song, thanx for reminding me of it, time to bust out the tapestry cd!!!!

~

DrummerDeanna · #8 06-25-2005, 05:26 PM

YES!!! So Far Away - GREAT suggestion - that's a really great "far away" song

goldie · #9 06-25-2005, 06:37 PM

How about Fireflies??

To survive the distance ....

Johnny Stew · #10 06-25-2005, 06:54 PM

My favorite Dire Straits song... "So Far Away."

Here I am again in this mean old town
And you’re so far away from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You’re so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me

I’m tired of being in love and being all alone
When you’re so far away from me
I’m tired of making out on the telephone
And you’re so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me

I get so tired when I have to explain
When you’re so far away from me
See you been in the sun and I’ve been in the rain
And you’re so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just can’t see
So far away from me
You’re so far away from me

Serrart · #11 06-25-2005, 08:38 PM

Some of my favourites:
Ne me quitte pas - Jacques Brel
Recuerdos De La Alhambra - Andres Segovia (an instrumental, but still)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough- Aretha Franklin
A Million Miles Away - Rory Gallagher

Romy

GateandGarden · #12 06-25-2005, 09:42 PM

Thank you all very much.

You've helped.

heyjupiter678 · #13 06-25-2005, 11:08 PM

A few from Tori:

1000 Oceans (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...02D3B49UWZZAWQ)

China (http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...815QSFN8NF8L48)

Toast (http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3...93GQ3LCIIVF3EG)

GateandGarden · #14 06-25-2005, 11:27 PM

Thank you Mikki!

irishgrl · #15 06-26-2005, 01:22 AM

500 miles by Peter Paul and Mary (tho I love the HOOTERS version best) In fact, I love ANYTHING by the Hooters)

If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles,
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

Lord I’m one, lord I’m two, lord I’m three, lord I’m four,
Lord I’m 500 miles from my home.
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles
Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home.

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way
This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way,
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way.

If you miss the train I’m on you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

HOOTERS VERSION:
If you missed the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
A hundred miles, a hundred miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Not a shirt on my back
Not a penny to my name
And the land that I once loved is not my own
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two,
Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home
A hundred tanks along the square
One man stands and stops them there
Someday soon the tide'll turn and I'll be free
I'll be free, I'll be free
I'll come home to my country
Someday soon the tide'll turn and I'll be free
If you missed the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two,
Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home...
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home...
I'll be free, I'll be free
I'll come home to my country
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home
You can hear the whistle blow five hundred miles

or Sailing
(Gavin Sutherland, 1972)

I am sailing, I am sailing,
home again 'cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free.

I am flying, I am flying,
like a bird 'cross the sky.
I am flying, passing high clouds,
to be with you, to be free.

Can you hear me, can you hear me
thro' the dark night, far away,
I am dying, forever trying,
to be with you, who can say.

Can you hear me, can you hear me,
thro' the dark night far away.
I am dying, forever trying,
to be with you, who can say.

We are sailing, we are sailing,
home again 'cross the sea.
We are sailing stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free.

Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free.
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free,
Oh Lord.

those are two I think are appropriate...