Silver Harps And Violins

They called you a dreamer

When you were seventeen

The years went by so fast

Now they call you other things

All of the answers that you're dreaming of -

They say that it's natural

But a grown man learns how to give them up

You had an apartment

And a woman once

You paid the electric and the gas

And water every month

She said that she loved you

And she wore your clothes

Now she's in dallas with a stand-up

Guy and a four-year-old

There's a world out there - I know there is -

Where they'll play my songs on their silver harps and their violins

If you remember one thing, remember this:

When the lights came up

There was nothing left I could give.

All of your cousins and your relatives -

They're competent husbands, faithful model citizens.

You saw them at christmas when they laughed and sang.

You're so very different

Why the hell can't you just feel the same?

There's a world out there - I know there is -

Where they'll play my songs

On their silver harps and their violins

If you remember one thing, remember this:

When the lights came up

There was nothing left I could give

Sometimes a vision lights up your mind.

It's all you were given, like fragile fruit on a fragile vine.

There's a world out there - I know there is -

Where they'll play my songs on their silver harps and their violins

If you remember one thing, remember this -

When the lights came up, there was nothing left I could give.