Distantly In Love<\/b><\/i>
\nBy: Jimmy Buffett
\n1983<\/p>\n
For Jane and Savannah Jane<\/i><\/p>\n
Payphones all were ringing as the crowd went roarin’ by
\nLovely dancers swayin’ to an island lullaby
\nBeside the southern ocean taking stock of what’s to be
\nWriting you this letter that you’ll probably never see<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nBut I can’t help but be
\nRuled by inconsistencies
\nNot unique just distantly in love<\/p>\n
Tried to phone from Paris thinking things could be arranged
\nMe and you would rendezvous but I found your number changed
\nSo I drove to San Remo where the crazy painter dwells
\nToasted our old photograph still up there on his shelf<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nBut I can’t help but be
\nRuled by my antiquities
\nNot unique just distantly in love<\/p>\n
I can’t be the one to fill
\nYour times and all your places
\nI can’t be the one to fill
\nYour blanks and empty spaces<\/p>\n
I heard it from a friend of ours I saw in Timber Bay
\nYou had a new lover who had stolen you away
\nThat could be the reason that I never got in touch
\nMay present slight problems if he loves you half as much<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nAs I who can’t help but be
\nRuled by my antiquities
\nNot unique just distantly in love
\nYou know I can’t help but be
\nPart of my own philosophies
\nNot unique just distantly in love<\/p>\n
I’ve been distantly in love so many times in my life. There are letters I’ve written that others have never seen, and there are some girls that, yes, if I ran into their boyfriends, it might pose a slight problem if he loved her half as much as I do.<\/p>\n
There have been times that I felt like the girl wanted me to fill those blanks in her life, those empty spaces, and I just couldn’t do it. I am often ruled by inconsistencies and thoughts of artifacts given to me in times past.<\/p>\n
I don’t feel special or unique. Just distantly in love.<\/p>\n
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