Further Away
Album: Kaleidoscope Tales
By: Lucy and the Man
By: Lucy and the Man
Duration
4:17
Genres
Description
An intimate, soulful shuffle about an elder lady's sister who's developed Alzheimer's disease. Lucy wrote this song based on a black-and-white photograph of two young sisters, and asked herself: what has become of these women now? What if one of them only remembers everything they did together back then, but doesn't recognise the lady the other has become?
Lyrics
Further Away - (L. van Schaijk) 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 we spent catching snowflakes 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 The 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 here today And while being so close she has never been further away Further away, further away
