Far From Me notes
"The first girl I went steady with waitressed at the old Seville's on Fifth and Madison." (in Maywood, IL)... "……a broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring" is in reference to my childhood. We were raised close to a junkyard and one of my favorite pastimes was playing in the junkyard breaking bottles. The kids always commented that the fragments of glass looked just like a field of diamonds. The majority of my songs are written from life experiences and a lot of times there is not any symbolism but just words that take me to another place and time." ~John Prine
note: John has said in several interviews that this is his favorite song that he has written.