Story Behind The Song

contemporary country, introspective but with a universal appeal, comparing the guiding spirit to a diffrent drummer, the conflict between the easy life of conformity to the difficulty of being different

Song Description

intro, first verse describing the drummer and his influence on the singers life, chorus brings out more inner feelings, no bridge, chorus joins at end, indicating that the message is universal.

Lyrics

Different Distant Drummer (Russel Alan Pratt)

A distant different drummer called me where I'm walking today
I've never seen the drummer though I often hear him play
Just over the next hill, around the next bend
From beyond the horizon he's calling me again

I know that if I follow there's a price I have to pay
Yet I know that it is nothing compared with what he paid to play
I hear it in the quiet, I hear it in the dark
A steady faultless rhthym like the beating of my heart

Am I crazy? Have I lost my mind?
Chasing something I can't see with so little reason but so much rhyme?
I want to follow, I don't want to be left behind
But what will happen to me tomorrow when I follow him this time?

The distant different drum continues calling out to me
And though I try to stop my ears it beats inside of me
I don't want to leave the comfort of my day to day routine
To chase this different distant drummer
Always heard but seldom seen

Am I crazy? Have I lost my mind?
Chasing something I can't see with so little reason but so much rhyme?
I hate to leave the comfort of my day to day routine
To chase this distant different drummer when he calls me again
Can't you hear him callin' out to me
Hear the drummer callin' (Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
He's playin' on his drum (Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
Such a distant different drum (Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
Yet it's close as close can be (Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
Such a different drummer
Yet the same for you and me, can't you hear the drum?
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
From way beyond the sea, can't you hear the drum?
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
(Hear the drum...listen to the drum)
Hear the drummer callin'

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Robian and the Meerkats	My Top Songs	12/15/2007