So Long - ©1992 Rachel Page ® Socan, Canada

Another rising star, that's how the paper read

Bound for fame and fortune, but that wasn't in his head

No-one even knew that anything was wrong

That night for an encore he told us in a song

 

I'm blessed and I am cursed and driven by it all

Ambitions got the best of me, I'm up against a wall

Politics, a bag of tricks, a drop in every name

I'm here for playing music, not for playing games

 

So long, he said so long

So long

So long I'm going gone

Time to go, time to say so long

 

Philosophy and poetry I sing to you, you flatter me

Dreamer for the spotlight drawn to fantasy

Candle light now fire light, I'm missing you I'm wanting time

To get back to the reason, to understand the rhyme

 

So long, he said so long

So long

So long I'm going gone

Time to go, time to say so long

 

Time for me to give it up, to live another way

Trade in my ambition for a simple summer day

Pick up my guitar and let the music play

Gone too far a fallen star fades away

 

So long, he said so long...