Silver Harps and Violins

They called you a dreamer

We were seventeen

The years went by so fast

Now they call you other things

All of the answers that you're dreamin' of

They say that it's natural

But a grown man learns how to give 'em 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 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

And confident husbands

Faithful model citizens

You saw them at christmas when they left 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 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 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