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I SAW YOU FROM AFAR

from LIKE A WORLD by Patrick Regan Band

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Inspired in part by the book Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post.

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I SAW YOU FROM AFAR

I saw you from afar, walking light upon the earth
I was dying of hunger, my friend

I saw you from afar, walking light upon the earth
I was dying of thirst, you are rain, I am alive again

I was dying within these walls
Locked away from the moon and sun
Where I could not join in the dance
Where I could not join in the hunt

I had food but it had no heart
And my work did not make me strong
Voices of talkers, buzzing of lies
Took the joy from my song

I saw you from afar, walking light upon the earth
I was dying of hunger, my friend, I am alive again

I saw you from afar, walking light upon the earth
I was dying of thirst, you are rain, I am alive again

In this desert I sought you out
Like the water you sip from the sand
To ask you to teach me to draw it out
From the breast of my own desert land

What I found at the water hole
Cattle come and the Bushman gone
Men without joy leaning on the corral
And the words of your lost son

“I left the desert because of thirst.
There is no place to go, so I stay.
No, I don’t remember my father’s song.
Why should I?”

On a rock where painted animals live
I place my hand on the print of a hand
And you speak from the painted rock
“This is how I hunted the eland”

There you pass in a single line
A mirage in the shimmering heat
First people, come to the last place on earth
Shallow the print of your feet

Walking light upon the earth
I was dying of hunger, my friend, I am alive again

I saw you from afar, walking light upon the earth
I was dying of thirst, you are rain, I am alive again

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from LIKE A WORLD, released January 14, 2023
Lyrics and music copyright Patrick S. Regan (BMI).

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Patrick Regan Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

A songwriter and singer, I'm handy enough to be a one-man band, but lucky enough to rope in great collaborators. Never played for a living: living to play.

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