Far from the home I love...

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 ev'ry 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.

(Fiddler on the Roof, Hodel's song)