Take You Away

(Music & Lyrics © Ronald D. Crowder)

ASCAP

Pretty much any situation in my life can be the inspiration for a song. The impetus for writing this song was a relationship I was in years ago. In hindsight, it was a relationship that was destined not to last. But for better or worse, I am one of those people who doesn’t give up very easily, sometimes even when, in hindsight, it is very clear that I should have. In the case of this one, the woman I was with was very unhappy. She would often talk about the past and compare her present to then and tell me things would never be as good as they were in the past. I would always try to lift her up and try to convince her that the future could be even better than yesterday if she would just have faith. I encouraged her to lean on me. Though it’s clear to me now that relationship was destined to break apart, I can be happy that I got this song out of it.

Listen to song

Baby, it won’t be long 

Till you won’t have to be so strong 

I’ve been waiting here all my life just to take you away 

You set out from where the rivers flow 

A little north of the Ohio 

Come dancing into my world just to take me away 

You come out of a dream 

Into love’s destiny 

Shine a light on my soul 

I want to take you away 

Don’t you know I’ve been a lonely man 

Living out on the Rio Grande 

Looking back over the years to find where I went astray 

You’ve been seeking what you left behind 

And every year it gets harder to find 

I believe tomorrow can be better than yesterday 

Baby, hold onto me 

Take my hand please believe 

I’m the one you see in your dreams 

I want to take you away 

Pour your love into me 

It’s the air that I breathe 

Take my heart make it home 

I want to take you away 

I believe we’ve always been lovers 

And through the years there’ll never be another 

One for me like you 

Baby, it won’t be long 

Till you won’t have to be so strong 

I’ve been waiting here all my life just to take you away 

We set out so long ago 

For a place we could call our own 

Through it all you know we’ve never been very far away 

You come out of a dream 

Into love’s destiny 

Shine a light on my soul 

I want to take you away 

Pour your love into me 

It’s the air that I breathe 

Take my heart make it home 

I want to take you away 

I want to take you away 

I want to take you away 

I want to take you away

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