Becky's playing a piece by on her old piano She's been since her childhood, "too long to recall..." But the that fall from her fingertips, are the same She when she could barely sit still, back in `69, When the keys made her look small
And she built her around symphonies and concertos Around the country, and playing the music halls Four kids later the been reduced to "what-if" scenarios But hey, to never is to have never lived at all lived at all
Dave's a corporate in the city of chicago And for years, he's had his nose to the old grindstone his money in the bank to feed the beast called portfolio Well, if time is money then is a life alone
You can look out at the for some forgiveness When you in love, the same will be returned He has prided himself on a lifetime of spoken It took him forty years to hear the lesson Has he lived at all? Never at all...
lived at all
The great american novel sits on top of kitchen table 300 pages on a town he built inside of his He signs the cover page, the bottle with the dusty label Pours his wife a glass, she says "baby, the bottle to bed"
At 6 am he's out fighting the on the freeway And his manuscript, has he written his own downfall? But he'll embrace rejection, he'll the seal of each envelope Better to live in hope than to never lived at all To live at all Never at all