March 22, 2009

• Far From The Home I Love

  
  

  Far From the Home I Love

  How can I hope to make you understand
  Why I do, what I do,
  Why I must travel to a distant land
  Far from the home I love?
  
  Once I was happily content to be
  As I was, where I was
  Close to the people who are close to me
  Here in the home I love…
  
  Who could see that a man would come
  Who would change the  shapes of my dreams?
  Helpless, now, I stand with him
  Watching older dreams grow dim.
  Oh, what a melancholy choice this is,
  Wanting home, wanting him,
  Closing my heart to every hope but his,
  Leaving the home I love.
  
  There were my heart has settled long ago
  I must go, I must go.
  Who could imagine I’d be wand’ring so
  Far from the home I love?
  
  Yet, there with my love, I’m home.
  
  
  
  

  This song is from the musical play Fiddler on the Roof.
  
  

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