This is a very powerful song written from the point of view of someone who has just been told their relationship is over. A phrase that keeps repeating is:
And it's so far to fall
From the warm light in your eyes
To nothin' at all
Here is a live version that you can find on YouTube.
- So Far To Fall
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- I guess I can't stop you
- No, I guess you'll just leave
- Its like I woke and found
- You walking on sacred ground
- Bringing a great dread down on me
- And I know we've had hard times
- But I thought we'd still try
- Didn't we both intend
- To see this through thick and thin
- It wasn't just sink or swim this time
- Well this ain't the love you swore to me
- And this ain't the life it's supposed to be
- And I don't know just how to hold on now
- And it's so far to fall
- From the warm light in your eyes
- To nothin' at all
- Guess I'll drop by and see my old friends
- Maybe go off on my own
- You speak from a heart so cold
- To tell me your love's grown old
- And just not enough to hold you down
- Oh this ain't the love you swore to me
- And this ain't the life it's supposed to be
- And I don't know just how to hold on now
- And it's so far to fall
- From the warm light in your eyes
- To nothin at all
- 1/25/91
- (P) May 27, 2003
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
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