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