When You've Been Away for a Long Time

When you've been away from the color of the sky

When you've been away for a long time

You will see it true, it's a different shade of blue

When you've been away for a long time

When you've been away from the music in your heart

When you've been away for a long time

The songs come back again like an old familiar friend

When you've been away for a long time

I can hear, I can see, I can feel, I am free

And I've been away for a long time

When you've been away from the loving in your soul

When you've been away for a long time

I hear it's like a rain that washes all your pain

When you've been away for a long time

When you've been away from someone you once knew

When you've been away for a long time

If you find it true that someone was just you

Then you've been away for a long time

I can hear, I can see, I can feel, I am free

And I've been away, I've been away

I've been away for a long time