We’re listening to songs about distance this week, and I managed to make it not just long-distance love songs. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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They Might Be Giants, “Ana Ng” (Lincoln, 1988)
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4:38
Marlena Shaw, “So Far Away” (Marlena, 1972)
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8:32
Wilco, “Far, Far Away” (Being There, 1996)
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12:39
Reading: John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
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14:55
Astrud Gilberto, “Far Away” (That Girl from Ipanema, 1977)
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19:12
The Violet Burning, “Gorgeous” (The Violet Burning Demonstrates Plastic and Elastic, 1998)
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23:54
Franc Moody, “Space Between Us” (Chewing the Fat, 2025)
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28:35
Reading: Camille Carter, “Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘From the Faraway, Nearby,’ 1937”
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31:13
The Beths, “Straight Line Was a Lie” (Straight Line Was a Lie, 2025)
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35:16
Dwight Yoakam, “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere” (This Time, 1993)
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39:35
Laura Cantrell, “No Way There from Here” (No Way There from Here, 2013)
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45:13
Les Paul and Mary Ford, “How High the Moon” (single, 1951)
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47:17
R.E.M., “Can’t Get There from Here” (Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985)
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50:53
Martha and The Vandellas, “Jimmy Mack” (Watchout!, 1967)
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54:47
Lynyrd Skynyrd, “I Need You” (Second Helping, 1974)
