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Where You Are

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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Yet another old song made new. I’ve been a Springsteen fan(atic) since 1975 but never felt I could write in his style until “The River” came out in 1980. I was feeling, and wanted to capture, the sweet romantic longing and desperation that characterized his early work, but because I wasn’t working within rock, I didn’t know how to get there. “The River” opened that door and this song followed. It’s been written and rewritten probably ten times over, but its heart is in “Drive all Night” and “The Price You Pay.”

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Where You Are

The hillside’s shinin’ all the way to the trees
If you listen closely you can hear it
And restless heroes test their love by the trees
Only one time left to share it
But here I am in the flatlands again
Heroes move, but I just listen
Solo motion with the paper and pen
Always you and I keep missin’

And you can keep your hill-shining moon
And you can keep your star
And you can keep your west and your east
Just keep me where you are

Days of darkness ‘til I first saw your face
Night by night we set the rhythm
‘Til motion sickness took us to a different place
But the walls were strong while we lived in them
And if I cry out for the distance to break
For waves of silence to find an island
We’ll come up quickly and we’ll give and we’ll take
And we’ll walk that trail up to the highland

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The hill’s still shinin’ just as far as I can see
It sounds so sweet, so still and lonely
And heroes gone home where they’ll dream so desperately
Of nights with time to share, if only
And in the flatlands it’s all quiet tonight
The pen and paper just scratch the stillness
And you’re above it all, you fill all sense and sight
I’m close behind, but if I still miss

Chorus

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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