"So Far Away" is a 1985 rock song by Dire Straits. It appears on the album Brothers in 
Arms. It became the band's fourth top 20 hit on the Billboard charts, peaking at #19. The 
song was the lead single from Brothers in Arms in the UK and Europe on 8 April 1985. Charted 
at #20 in the UK, but also reached the Top 5 in Norway (#4), Top 10 in Switzerland (#6)and 
Sweden (#7) and Top 40 in Italy (#33). The single was also released in Australia and peaked 
at #22. After the song climbed to #29 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 
1985, "So Far Away" was released a year later as the album's third single in North America,
where it peaked at #3 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and #19 on the Billboard 
Hot 100, giving Dire Straits a third consecutive Top 20 hit from Brothers in Arms on the 
Hot 100.


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A/C# 0.0.11.9.10.0
 009990      
 009870        
       
Add9 007657

  
 476454     
 099870     
 077650      
 006654
        
Tabs Tablature
r = release     
h = hammer on


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INTRO  E/B    h A/C#    B    A h & r Add9    E/Ab x2

               
          
Here I am agai

              
n in this mean

     
 old town 
              
And you’re so 

              
far away from 

  
me
              
Now where are 

              
you when the s

                                    
un goes down? 
                            E/B | h & r A/C#   E/B
And you’re so far away from me
           
So far away fr

              
om me
          
So far I just 

       |  &       
can't see
           
So far, away f

                                          
rom me
      
Just so far fr

       
om me

E/B    h A/C#    B    A h & r Add9    E/Ab x2


          
I'm tired of b

              
eing in love a

              
nd being all a


lone 
              
When you’re so

              
 far away from

   
 me
              
I'm tired of m

              
aking out on t

                        
he telephone 
                              E/B | h & r A/C#   E/B  
Cause you’re so far away from me
           
So far away fr

                 
om me 
          
So far I just 

       |  &      
can't see
           
So far, away f

                 
rom me 
      
Just so far fr

    
om me

E/B    h A/C#    B    A h & r Add9    E/Ab x2


          
And I get so t

              
ired when I ha

      
ve to explain 

              

       
              
You’re so far 

            
away from me
              
See you be in 

              
the sun and I 

          
be in the rain

                    
 
           
And you’re so 

              
far away from 

 |  &     
me
           
So far away fr

              
om me
          
So far I just 

       |  &       
can't see
           
So far, away f

               
rom me 
      
Just so far fr

    
om me

E/B    h A/C#    B    A h & r Add9    E/Ab x2


              
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