Well 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.
Its 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 its '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 damn fool I turned around and looked in the mirror,
And there I saw 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.
Thats when I knew.
That there I was seein' an old violin.
Soon to be put away and never played again.
And just like that it hit me,
'Cause that old violin and I were just alike.
And soon, we'll give our lives