BUT I CAN’T COME HOME — ORCHESTRAL DUET CUT [Singer A — Billy Joe, intimate] Love can live on, on and on Calling out your name Beyond that hill And far beyond Where love belongs With our old song When the time comes I’ll walk along Through yonder hills Where we belong And your last love letter Folded in my pocket [Instrumental — powerful rising solo violin run; strings swell, then fall quiet] [Singer B — distant, tender] Just singing our old song Till the night comes I’m still here with you My love can hold on and on But I can’t come home [Instrumental — heartbreaking high violin run answered by the full string section] [Singer A — rising hurt, then breaking softly] My love can live on, on and on Calling out your name Beyond that hill And far beyond Where love belongs With our old song When the time comes I’ll walk along Through yonder hills Where we belong Your letter holds our song I sing it all night long [Ending — one descending violin phrase; clean stop]
