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Two Hours Away

from Courting My Muse by Mary Crowell

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This was written while coming home from a World Science Fiction Convention in Canada. (Torcon) It celebrates coming home to my husband and an end to a lengthy period of writer’s block. No, I don’t play the banjo.

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Two Hours Away
© 2003 by Mary Crowell.

Two hours away,
The world’s a wing and a cotton Christmas display.
Sun glints into my eyes, its light, a triangle warm
On my pen and arm.

CHORUS
I’m flying home
Where you wait for me,
Flying home
Notebook on my knee.

Songs were sitting at home.
They stayed inside while they waited for me to roam.
Then I captured the sun on a wing in Canada skies.
Then those songs could rise.

Songbooks stacked up alone;
Piano’s near, but the room is silent of tone.
I love coming home, and yet why does going away
Tell me things are left to say?

CHORUS

I’m missing you, Love,
Suspended here in the clouds of Heaven above.
When I’m writing these words, and while I’m singing this song,
‘Journey seems so long. But I’m

CHORUS

Two hours away,
The world’s a wing and a cotton Christmas display.
Now I’m coming home on a wing in Canada’s skies.
Now my notes can rise!

CHORUS

And I come to Alabama with a notebook on my knee.

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from Courting My Muse, released May 7, 2007
Music and Lyrics by Mary Crowell
Copyright 2003 by Mary Crowell
Mary Crowell: Vocal and Piano

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey!
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