Name: Neighbor Paul Remastered
Duration: 5 min 34 s
Channel: Michael J Redding (BMI)
Description: "Neighbor Paul Remastered" is a song by hank49. My neighbor is an older man than this old man, and he is near his end. With help he has moved back into his own home next door now, and I am reminded of this song I wrote about him close to seven years ago now, about his life and our interaction as n

Neighbor Paul Remastered

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My neighbor is an older man than this old man, and he is near his end. With help he has moved back into his own home next door now, and I am reminded of this song I wrote about him close to seven years ago now, about his life and our interaction as n

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hank49

Hank49 - Original words and music in a variety of styles including Americana, Country, Folk, Blues, Indie, and Rock. Facebook mirror: http://www.faceboo

I am a musician and songwriter (primarily guitar and mandolin, but with amateur forays into banjo, fiddle, concertina, percussion and keyboard), jammer and jam host, recording engineer, producer, studio mole and occasional performer. When I perform solo, I'm hank49. When friends accompany me, we're hank49 and Loose Canon. Loose Canon is an ever shifting assembly of fellow musicians including Tom Edwards, Mitch Prevatte, Brian Chaney, Kevin Chaney, Lena and Jason Redding, Bronson Shanahan, Robert Darlington, Dave Eske, Johnny Decker, John O'hara, John Seay and more.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Author

Michael J Redding (BMI)

Rights

Michael J Redding (BMI)

Uploaded

April 19, 2015

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MP3 12.8 MB • 320 kbps • 5:34

Story behind the song

My neighbor is an older man than this old man, and he is near his end. With help he has moved back into his own home next door now, and I am reminded of this song I wrote about him close to seven years ago now, about his life and our interaction as neighbors. His younger sister had a disability and he sacrificed much of a normal life to support her. Then she became ill with gout and, long story - some of which I don't know, she went to live in a facility instead of at home, leaving him alone. She passed away not too very long after that. Paul was devastated after she left, declined and also spent some time in managed care, but has now returned home. I wrote this song between the time Joyce had left/passed and Paul moved out to managed care.

Lyrics

Lyrics:

VERSE 1:
When the kids were small
Back before the mall
We bought this house and
Climbed up all its walls

Back then the work was fun
A mortgage we had won
Now here we are
And here we come undone

VERSE 2:
So when we settled down
Enough to look around
We'd see you come and go
With sister Joyce

She was to the manor born
With a crown of thorns
But you cared for her
And gave her world a voice

CHORUS
Somewhere up there a satellite records us
Nothing is unknown to terms of search
Of all the things that we might see before us
The best is just a good man on this earth

VERSE 3:
The years passed like a spell
The kids were one long yell
While the hedges went to
Honeysuckle hell

You never went too far
The diner or the bar
But I never saw the
Two of you apart

CHORUS
I know you could have had a life without her
And when she went away it all came home
They put her in that building on Belair road
With the injured, the old and the infirm

BRIDGE:

VERSE 4:
Alone in that front room
Like the sea without a moon
No one to remind you
Who you are

Youa019d shuffle down the walk
Nobody stopped to talk
Lonesome as a wound
Without a scar

CHORUS
I know you could have had a life without her
And when she went away it all came home
So they put you in that building on Belair road
With the injured, the old and the infirm

VERSE 6:
Now ita019s different on the street
Youa019re not in your car asleep
Or standing out there
Leaning on your cane

Youa019re not asking me for help
So I feel somehow less well
Than when you needed me
Ita019s not the same

CHORUS
Somewhere up there a satellite records us
Nothing is unknown to terms of search
But of all the things that we might see before us
The best is just a good man on this earth

VERSE 7:
Can you hear me neighbor Paul?
Youa019re right down the hall
They just moved me in
So far ita019s all OK

And Joyce has got a door
Down on the 2nd floor
But she dona019t know wea019re in here
Anyway

CHORUS
I know I had a life without you
But when they took you away it all came home
They'll put me in that building on Belair road
With the injured, the old and the infirm

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