This week’s song is by one of my all-time favorite bands when it comes to a lyric with a nice turn-of-phrase. To this day, Chris Difford is still among the best lyricists of the last fifty years. This one was the title track to 1993’s Some Fantastic Place and it’s about an eternally optimistic friend of both Difford and Glenn Tilbrook who died of leukemia. While it’s sad and frequently gets me choked up, having lost much family and friends to cancer over the years, it’s one of those songs that assists in the grieving process, and helps to heal the deep wound left after a devastating loss.

Enjoy Some Fantastic Place by Squeeze.

She gave to me her tenderness
Her friendship and her love
I see her face from time to time
There in the sky above

We grew up learning as we went
What a voyage our life could be
It took us through a wilderness
Into the calmest sea

Her smile could lift me from the pain
I often found within
She said some things I won’t forget
She made a few bells ring

So simple her humility
Her beauty found in grace
Today she lives another life
In some fantastic place

She showed me how to raise a smile
Out of her bed of gloom
And in her garden sanctuary
A life began to bloom.

She visualized a world ahead
And planned how it would be
She left behind the strongest love
That lives eternally

I have the hope that when it’s time
For me to come her way
That she’ll be there to show me round
Whenever comes that day

Her love was life and happiness
And in her steps I trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place

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