From the recording Desperation
Lyrics
FARTHER FROM HOME
by Cath Campbell & James Webb
© 2004. Amadeus WAM
Defined by all those who love us,
Mother and father to start,
Each in their own way was absent,
Alone, she closed her young heart.
A heart like the rock of the Cuillins,
Cleaved by the touch of a man,
The stones lay spoiled and neglected,
Denied, she took flight again.
Chorus
One more town Farther From Home.
This time maybe she’ll stop,
To find her way.
Always looking back,
She keeps moving on.
When she is one she’s coming home,
Aah to stay.
Cut mem’ries of we’ans left behind her,
Quilted in her own bed.
A suitcase and one-room apartments,
The nights and the thoughts in her head.
Denied, she won’t be forgotten,
So in music she welcomes desire.
But all the jigs and the reels in these islands,
Can’t step out the anger inside.
(Repeat Chorus)