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a. (alternative spelling of faraway English)
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"Far Away" (stylized as "Far away") is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki for her third studio album, Duty (2000). It was written by Hamasaki, while production was handled by Max Matsuura. It premiered on May 17, 2000 as the second single from the album. The song is part of a trilogy from Duty; the other two singles being " Vogue" and " Seasons".
Musically, "Far Away" is a Japanese pop song. The lyrics highlights theme of nostalgia, describing Hamasaki's past. Upon its release, the track garnered positive reviews from music critics, who praised Hamasaki's song writing and selected it as an album and career stand out track. It also achieved success in Japan, peaking at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart and on the TBS Count Down TV chart. "Far Away" has sold over 510,000 units in Japan.
The accompanying music video for "Far Away" was directed by Wataru Takeishi, and serves as a sequel to the video for "Vogue"; it features two children in a post-apocalypse city, reading a book that has video imagery of Hamasaki in a cherry blossom field. Hamasaki then appears in the post-apocalypse city. Both the music video and the song has appeared on several compilations by Hamasaki, including A Best (2001) and A Complete: All Singles (2008). For additional promotion, the song was featured on several concert tours by Hamasaki including her 2000 Japan tour and her Power of Music tour.
"Far Away" is a single by Canadian band Nickelback. Released in late 2005/early 2006 in the United States and February 13, 2006 in the United Kingdom. It was released as the fourth U.S. single of All the Right Reasons, but the second in Europe. "Far Away" peaked at #8 in the United States, making All the Right Reasons the only Nickelback album to date to have more than one top ten hit. The band's lead singer and guitarist Chad Kroeger described this song on the Tour when in Australia as the "only real love song" that Nickelback has. He described many others as "being about love" but not solely about "being in love".
The song was re-released in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2008 following the success of "Rockstar" and the re-release of "Photograph". This release also reached number 40 in the UK singles chart, equalling its original chart peak, although this re-release was download-only.
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Far Away is a 2000 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill. The play has four characters, Harper, Young Joan, Joan, and Todd, and is based on the premise of a world in which everything in nature is at war. It is published by Nick Hern Books.
Far Away is an album of dance songs by the Belgian trio Lasgo. It features the singles "Surrender", "All Night Long", "Who's That Girl" and "Lying'". The album is Evi Goffin's last contribution as the vocalist for Lasgo. The song "Tonight" is not to be confused with the 2010 single "Tonight", a completely different song and accompanying music video featuring replacement vocalist Jelle Van Dael.
"Far Away" is a song by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother, featured on their 2009 second studio album Cosmic Egg. Written by vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, the song was released as the fourth single from the album on 3 June 2010, backed with a live cover version of the Kate Bush song " Wuthering Heights".
"Far Away" is a song composed by Leonid Shirin and Yury Vaschuk and performed by the band 3+2, and was to represent Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, having been chosen internally by Belarusian broadcaster BTRC. The song had previously taken part in the ONT contest "Musical Court", which was planned to be used to select the Belarusian entry for the Contest before ONT's application to join the European Broadcasting Union, the contest's organisers, was rejected.
On 19 March 2010, it was announced that 3+2 had changed their song for the contest, and will now perform the song " Butterflies" at the contest, written by Maxim Fadeev and Malka Chaplin.
Far Away is a 1995 EP released to introduce the then upcoming album Moving Target by the Danish progressive metal band Royal Hunt. The instrumental "Double Conversion" appears only on this release. The live tracks were recorded in Japan in 1995 during the "Clown in the Mirror" tour. Royal Hunt dedicated the song "Far Away" to all the people of Japan who lost their relatives and friends in the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
"Far Away" is a song by English recording artist Marsha Ambrosius. It was released on December 7, 2010 as the second single from her debut studio album, Late Nights & Early Mornings. The album was subsequently released on March 1, 2011. The song was written by Marsha Ambrosius with co-writing by Sterling Simms and production by Just Blaze, in 2008. The song was nominated for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
"Far Away" is a song co-written and performed by American neo soul group Kindred the Family Soul, issued as the only official single from their debut album Surrender to Love. The song peaked at #53 on the Billboard R&B chart in 2003.
"Far Away" is a song by American rapper Tyga featuring American Idol finalist Chris Richardson. The song was first released on May 17, 2011 as the lead single from the rapper's debut studio album, Careless World: Rise of the Last King (2012). The song, which was produced by British producer Jess Jackson, debuted at number ninety-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated August 20, 2011, reaching a peak of number eighty-six for the chart dated October 1, 2011. The track also peaked at number ninety-three on the R&B/hip-hop chart and number sixteen on the rap chart. As of January 25, 2012, "Far Away" has sold approximately 303,000 copies in the US.
Usage examples of "far away".
Ozden would know all about that, all right, and so Stan stayed far away from his old tenements.
A dog was sniffing about the bushes not far away-and creeping up behind him, all his hackles up, was Timothy!
We'll fly him downriver, far, far away, find an island, if we can.
Not far away a stream flows out of a limey cave, rushes to the edge, and plunges off.
Occasional highlights gleamed above the fog's monochrome blur, but they were too far away to have shapes.
The two Christmas trees I had seen before were standing immobile not far away, but Beert ignored them.
I didn't have any good idea of the time, but a full moon was down near the western horizon and daybreak couldn't be far away.
I'm sorry in a way that I'm leaving England and going out to live so far away, sorry that I shan't see Father and Mother again for years and years, or perhaps at all.
The sky above the trees was cloudy but not threatening, and not too far away we could see a road that wasn't too badly out of repair.
The Norfolk is perhaps not so very far away, and you shall serve them out.
Even if she were already in the Marquesas she would not be so very far away by now, as these things were reckoned in the prodigious expanse of the Pacific, where something in the nature of a thousand miles seemed the natural unit.
I think he is from far away, for his stature is different, and even his facial structure, and he is of larger frame than the Eno that I have seen.
The Lillver Cleaning Company outlets were never far away from their customers.
Any possibility of help was far away and most of the Jao fleets were committed elsewhere.