Fiddler on the Roof movie - Far from the Home I Love lyrics

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Far From The Home I Love <br>

How can I hope to make you understand<br>

Why I do what I do,<br>

Why I must travel to a distant land,<br>

Far from the home I love.<br>

Once I was happily content to be<br>

As I was, where I was,<br>

Close to the people who are close to me,<br>

Here in the home I love.<br>

Who could see that a man could come<br>

Who would change the shape of his dreams.<br>

Helpless now I stand with him,<br>

Watching older dreams grow dim.<br>

Oh, what a melancholy choice this is,<br>

Wanting home, wanting him,<br>

Closing my heart to ev'ry hope but his,<br>

Leaving the home I love,<br>

There where my heart has settled long ago<br>

I must go, I must go, I must go,<br>

Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so<br>

Far from the home I love<br>

Yet there with my love, I'm home.<br>

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How can she think we wouldn't understand<br>

Why she does what she does,<br>

Why she must travel to a distant land,<br>

Far from the home she loves.<br>

Once she was happily content to be<br>

As she was, where she was,<br>

Safe in the bosom to her family,<br>

Here in the home she loves.<br>

Who could see that a man could come<br>

Who would change the shape of my dreams.<br>

Helpless now she stands with him,<br>

Watching older dreams grow dim.<br>

Oh, what a melancholy choice this is,<br>

Wanting home, wanting him,<br>

Closing her heart to ev'ry hope but his,<br>

Leaving the home she loves,<br>

There where her heart has settled long ago<br>

She must go, she must go, she must go,<br>

Who could imagine she'd be wand'ring so<br>

Far from the home she loves<br>

Yet there with her love, she's home.<br>

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