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