SIX FEET FROM LOVE

c. April 24, 2020
Mark Stanton Welch
Key Em

                     Em7                                                               
Well, I’m a Virgo man I like to touch and to hug
   Am7                                                               Em7
I yearn for human contact  it’s a way to give Love
              C                                                  B7                    
Then a call came for social distance to keep me in my place
             Em7                B7
What to do?   What to do?

I went on down to Trader Joe’s  I stood in the line
And right there she’s before me in a mask I thought my oh my
I stood there on my tape spot I said good Lord above
I was just six feet from love  six feet from love

Now, you can’t make conversation talkin’ through a mask
And it’s hard to exchange numbers wearing gloves, a monumental task
So I retreat into my reverie I shuffle and dream
While I am six feet from Love six feet from Love

There’s a bluff down near the ocean I walk there all the time
I used to stop and talk with strangers human connection Divine
Now we all have to walk just one way no more face to face
What to do  what to do

Now it’s an awkward little wave, or a bowing Namaste
Or a bumping of the elbows, kind of funny that way
I don’t care what you do, humans need to connect
We need Love must have Love

           Am7                                                                                          Em7
 It’s a time when fear is everywhere it can turn right into anger and rage
 Am7                                                                                    Em7
 Everyone needs Love you know   We can’t be kept in a cage
          Am7                                                                   Em7
 We have to have connection      Must have face to face
 C                                            B7                   Em7         B7
 Six feet from Love is not a way to live…no way   No way

But I understand the choice  and I’m going along
I give my Love through music   Through my words and my songs
I know Love is just an energy   It’s what we’re made of
We’re all made of Love made of Love

So, we’ll ride this out together  While the world she transforms
And we’ll open hearts together   And all life is reborn
Without those old distractions,   We recover the Truth
And I send out my Love    Send out my Love to you

           Am7                                                                                          Em7
 It’s a time when fear is everywhere it can turn right into anger and rage
 Am7                                                                                    Em7
 Everyone needs Love you know   We can’t be kept in a cage
          Am7                                                                   Em7
 We have to have connection      Must have face to face
 C                                            B7                   Em7         B7
 Six feet from Love is not a way to live…no way   No way

Well, nothing stays the same    It will not return
To the life of separation   Where Love had to be earned
Six feet from Love has been safe and some fun
But when we step into the New World  All will be One
But when we step into the New World  All will be One…

I went on down to Trader Joe’s  I stood in the line…..