Far From The Home I Love (From "Fiddler On The Roof" Soundtrack) - John Williams/Chaim Topol/Norma Crane/"Fiddler On The Roof” Motion Picture Orchestra

How can I hope to make you understand

Why I do what I do

Why I must travel to a distant land

Far from the home I love

Once I was happily content to be

As I was where I was

Close to the people who are close to me

Here in the home I love

Who could see that a man would come

Who would change the shape of my dreams

Helpless now I stand with him

Watching older dreams grow dim

Oh what a melancholy choice this is

Wanting home wanting him

Closing my heart to every hope but his

Leaving the home I love

There where my heart has settled long ago

I must go I must go

Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so

Far from the home I love

Yet there with my love I'm home