Dan Fogelberg - Half Moon Bay / When You're Not Near Me (Lyrics)

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From Dan Fogelberg "Full Circle" album (released 2003)

Dan Fogelberg talked about HALF MOON BAY --
"It's just a place in my mind, a nice title, just a name that came into my head one night. I wanted it to feel kind of oceanic. I just felt it was kind of a little instrumental signature piece with strings I wanted to revisit, like the opening of "Twin Sons (Of Different Mothers)", "Captured Angel" and "Innocent Age".

"It's separate from 'When You're Not Near Me' (the second track), but I wrote it intentionally knowing it would go into the second track, so I wrote it so it would end in the same key. "

"The sequencing of this album was important to me. When you work on something as long as this it changes obviously. It is one of the reasons it didn't come out last year (2002). Something wasn't quite right. It had a different sequence. This winter when I was in Hawaii, for some reason it dawned on me to change the sequencing. When I came home I was ready to do that. It flowed better. 'Once In Love' was so strong I didn't want to bury it.

Everybody who heard it said, "That's the radio tune." I said, 'OK, great, then I should move it up. Elliot Scheiner, who has won Grammys working with the Eagles and Steely Dan, mixed the album. He's one of the best and is the reason the album sounds so good." (Dan Fogelberg)

(In almost 40 years as a popular music engineer, producer and mixer, Scheiner, in addition to the Eagles and Steely Dan, has worked on projects by Van Morrison, Sting, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Fleetwood Mac and others. He has won Grammy Awards for "Best Engineered Recording" twice, and received nearly 20 nominations.)

2. "When You're Not Near Me"
(Sample lyric: 'When you're not near me, there is no laughter in my spirit.' )

"I don't want to say 'This is about this person or that person. The songs on this album span such a long period of time they probably are about a half dozen different relationships. More than these songs being about anyone, for the most part I hope they are appreciated by the listener as part of their life so it becomes a more personal experience for them, rather than 'Oh, who did he write that about?' or 'What's going on in his life?' But I want these songs to still reflect emotion and sentiment that should be valid to anyone involved in a mature, romantic situation. Most of them are very hopeful. 'Drawing Pictures' (track 9) is sad, but I wrote it when I was 21. For the most part, the songs are very hopeful about the nature of relationships."

" 'When You're Not Near Me' feels like a George Harrison kind of Beatles thing to me, though nobody else may get that. A lot of songs reflect my earliest influences, like (The Byrds') Gene Clark ('Full Circle'). That was conscious, my doing as a producer." (Dan Fogelberg)

Source: "The Artist Embraces the Past as a Guide to the Future" By Rex Rutkowski

When You're Not Near Me (Lyrics)

When youre not near me
The time dont seem to move as easy
When youre not near me
The sun dont seem to feel the same
The days dont shine as brightly
And the nights dont taste as sweet
And this soul of mine feels
lost and incomplete
When youre not near me

When youre not near me
I make the sound of one hand clapping
When youre not near me
I leave no footprints in the sand
And I can find no solace
in the lonely silver sea
Im only half as strong and half as free
When youre not near me
When youre not near me

Dont be long my love
Oh, dont be long my love
It wont be long until
I hold you in my arms again

When youre not near me
There is no laughter in my spirit
When youre not near me
There is no spirit in my laugh
You are like a magnet to that iron part in me
And this longing never seems to let me be
When youre not near me
When youre not near me

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