What a What a strangling to be caught in To be here To be stuck in with Vienna so near Yet so far from the ear a strange and impossible sum To be old while to be so young To have before speaking a word To be To be Then to To be To but to be so naive To trust and to be so To mourn, forlorn, to be from you for another who suffers no grief To curse God, seeking And to be ignored To hide in room, now too rich to afford To armies of creditors bang at the door Always for more And to have nothing to sell that help Except for the Steinway that sits in the
For Arthur it all too easily To learn the in every key To the etudes and the suites The and The Fantaisie To the sonatas, minuets, and symphonies To seek the truth and starts To strike the F like it's an arrow through the heart To wing the hand like a dove
(the peaceful flutter of a dove) And with left a violent shove
(some will demand a shove) To needle gently yet relentless a steady foot upon the pedal And to clench the iron inside the velvet glove To learn to whisper and to (the justifies the scream) To let each yearning breathe (no, lives unless it breathes) To burn, to worship, to To pose a question with a on a key To flee, to fight, to To in air Nothing solid To rap those heavy knuckles on the gate to heaven til nothing to Achieve, but To go retrieve the length of cable hidden in the To the twisted rope unto an alphabet To lay the lazy C upon the shabby wooden to rest To send the end across the top and the C into an S To curve the beneath the S to turn the tangle to a B To hug the wretched root around the fibers To wrap again to wrap again to give the coil loops To the yawning hoop To tug the loose through To yank the knot until it's ready for the got to do To the braid above the ceiling beam and to affix the noose To bid adieu to all of you
until there's left to do but Climb the To the collar Find the To step the air