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