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