Distantly in Love

 

Distantly in Love Lyrics

Distantly In Love
By: Jimmy Buffett
1983
For Jane and Savannah Jane
Payphones all were ringing as the crowd went roarin` by
Lovely dancers swayin` to an island lullaby
Beside the southern ocean taking stock of what`s to be
Writing you this letter that you`ll probably never see

Chorus:
But I can`t help but be
Ruled by inconsistencies
Not unique just distantly in love

Tried to phone from Paris thinking things could be arranged
Me and you would rendezvous but I found your number changed
So I drove to San Remo where the crazy painter dwells
Toasted our old photograph still up there on his shelf

Chorus:
But I can`t help but be
Ruled by my antiquities
Not unique just distantly in love

I can`t be the one to fill
Your times and all your places
I can`t be the one to fill
Your blanks and empty spaces

I heard it from a friend of ours I saw in Timber Bay
You had a new lover who had stolen you away
That could be the reason that I never got in touch
May present slight problems if he loves you half as much

Chorus:
As I who can`t help but be
Ruled by my antiquities
Not unique just distantly in love
You know I can`t help but be
Part of my own philosophies
Not unique just distantly in love

- Notes:
Mandolin: Josh Leo

 

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