Peter Mulvey - Sad, Sad, Sad, And Far Away From Home lyrics

Houdini's still stuck in that Doctorow book The one place he can never escape And your voice on the phone Is like one of those paintings where everything loses its shape And the girl across the street, she's as light on her feet As sunlight bouncing off chrome And I'm sad sad sad sad and far away from home Once I was standing on a Dublin street corner I heard a fiddler pierce the veil of illusion And once I got plastered at my best friend's bar mitzvah Once I lived in perfect confusion Oh and once I was eleven, once I was just atoms Once I was a hilltop in Rome Now I'm sad sad sad sad and far away from home Oh Li dee dee dee dee dee dee de dee dee de dee dee Now a kiss is just a flower that a bee could return from And do his little dance at the hive Perhaps it's worth mentioning, as I write this song down I am the happiest f**er alive For the seashore cries out for the painter to paint it And the wind whips the water into foam And I'm sad sad sad sad and far away from home Yes I am sad sad sad sad and I'm far away from home So Li dee dee dee dee dee dee de dee dee de dee dee