The Old Violin

I can't recall

One time in my life

I've felt as lonely

As I do tonight

I feel like I could lay down

And get up no more

It's the damnedest feelin'

I never felt it before

Tonight I feel

Like an old violin

Soon to be put away

And never played again

Don't ask me why I feel like this

Hell, I can't say

I only wish this feeling

Would just go away

I guess it's 'cause the truth

Is the hardest thing I ever faced

'Cause you can't change the truth

In the slightest way I tried

So I asked myself

I said, "John

Where do you go from here?"

Then like a fool

I turned around

I looked in the mirror

And there I was seein'

An old violin

Soon to be put away

And never played again

So one more time

Just to be sure

I said, "John

Where in the hell do you go from here?"

And you know there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference

When I looked in the mirror

'Cause there I was seein'

An old violin

Soon to be put away

And never played again

And just like that, it hit me

That an old violin and I were just alike

We'd give our all to music

And soon, we'd give our life

Precious memories, how they linger