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ABOUT THIS TRACK:
Time changes (from 5/8 to 6/8) feature in Further Away, the loving story of an old woman who sees her sister slipping away in the grip of Alzheimer’s disease. Loes’s fingerpicking guitar is complemented by Honza Bartošek’s heartfelt fiddle playing.
lyrics
LYRICS:
I visit her every night at nine
She greets me politely and asks for wine
I check the room to see if she's eaten on time
I ask her how her day has been
She doesn't remember and I need to wipe her chin
I see cigars on the table, wonder how they got in
My sister remembers the house by the lake
And all the winter days that we spent catching snow flakes
She remembers the secret hole
that we made in the old oak tree
I step forty years back in time
every second I spend in her company
She's a living museum of our personal history
Her walls are filled with picture frames
Of family and friends, including their names
To guess who's who is one of our games
She's not allowed to go outside
I have the key but I don't tell her where I hide it
She'd take it if she could and believe me she's tried it
She thinks I'm the nurse or the maid
And she frowns when I tell her my name
Cause the me she knows is twelve years old
And in her head will always stay the same
My sister remembers the candy we bought
And the candy we stole and the time we got caught
She remembers the skipping rope songs
The words and the melody
But it's so hard to accept that now that I've gone old and grey
She just cannot recognize the sister she sees her today
And while being so close she has never been further away
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