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Don't Take Me Away
Neil LoRé - 5:13
At first, it's about mortality, plain and simple, with a dash of social criticism thrown in. Lush vocal harmonies and strings color this dark piano ballad. The song almost didn't make it onto the CD since my tape deck crashed while mixing it (machine mortality, how ironic!). I had to use a loaner that degraded the piano track a bit but inspired the strings and harmonies that dominate the track now and that have made the song immortal after all!
Do you know where we go when we're gone? Which way is up and which down?
Is it over before it begins? Will we pay for our sins?
And what is the fruit of our labor if we never get to know our neighbor?
The pain that I brought about, the precious things that I threw out.
Now I sit all alone in that chair feeling like there's nobody there.
There's only you, there's only me that we can be sure of.
Only you, only me, that we've any proof of.
And preacher you've done me no good.
I'd've done better than I've shown I could
if your god had been kept in his case, I wish now I'd never seen his face.
'Cause he sits all alone in that chair feeling like there's nobody there.
There's only you, there's only me that we can be sure of.
Only you, only me that we've any proof of.
So go to sleep and dream, and dream about a day.
When all your fears wash away.
Will I be taken today, what about that other day, will I return to finish the play?
I think I'll be back again better than I was then.
Don't take me, don't take me away.
Someday, but not today.
Hear me, for I have something to say.
Don't take me, don't take me today. Not today. Don't take me away.
And love has fallen from favor, just a hint of light in the eyes of a dreamer.
Where do we go when we're gone, will we find love when the light comes on?
Or will we sit all alone in that chair feeling like there's nobody there?
There's only you; there's only me that we can be sure of.
Only you, only me, that we've any proof of.
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