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Forty Mile Town Lyrics

Artist: Eric Johnson
Album: Ah Via Musicom

I got a way I can find you,
Down the melody ranch, I know you're there most everyday,
That's where you like to spend some time alone.
I need to talk to you,
Tell you what I feel, like warm hellos in the morning mist,
And you're the magic that turns my heart around.

Seems to me, we're really living way too fast,
Oh when we should let the story of love last.
Sometimes I just want to go and drift away...
And move on to some fourty mile town.

I got a way I can see you,
Close my eyes to watch the ancient water flow,
Like a crystal dance that paupers know so well.
That's the way kings keep dreamin',
Hold their head up high and live below fourty mile skys,
The way that it can be in ocean towns

Things of this world, guess we never really own;
Oh that mountain falls, and then we're goin' home.
We should try to make the best and get away...
And work on towards a fourty mile town.

Seems to me we really need to feel love more,
Oh, and ordinary simle opens the door.
Sometimes all I want to do is dream away...
And wake up in some fourty mile town.

Comments/Interpretations

by ollie cox on 3/3/2009 6:19pm
One of my favourite EJ songs. The lyrics are so beautiful. Whenever I listen to it I just melt

by alan on 4/8/2010 12:48am
this is a beautiful song!
it has an impressive message, :)

by Rochelle on 8/17/2010 3:44am
One of my new favorites.....

by Viktor J on 10/20/2010 11:40am
Amazing song by EJ that I never really noticed until now! He's an incredible guitarist in which everyone know but, his lyrics are amazing really! They have a important message that nowadays humans don't really care about. "Seems to me, we're really living way too fast" is just so right! We don't really live in the moment since everything we care about is the future and we want to get there as fast as possible!

by manoj on 2/25/2011 12:35am
beautiful lyric with the wonderful music and voice as well.

by mukesh rai on 4/28/2011 9:12pm
awesome creation by eric.i solute u.

by Jimmy C on 6/18/2011 8:46pm
I just happen to dig out this album by chance after finally finding a lost love from 20 yrs ago. I used to listen to this and wonder where she was at and how she was. To find her after all this time and know she's ok meant the world to me. We're both married with families, but I can't help but think what could have been.

by Forever on 5/11/2012 12:49pm
For me, it's slowing down and recognizing and enjoying the important things in life. If you travel, you know the feeling of driving and coming upon some little town with simple folks and great values. It let's you know there is something more out there that is pure and real.

by Victoria on 1/24/2013 2:33pm
I'm currently learning this song on guitar, and I must say, his chord voicings are so ingenious, yet so simplistic. What a wonderful musician.