The castle that you live in, is it really made of stone
Or would a gentle breeze blow it down
Did you build it in your dream world, Is it really not your own
Live there as long as you can

He can't read books and he can't paint pretty pictures
But he understands so much clearer than I
For he knows that all he's missing with his eyes
Is more vivid in the mind of the man who's going blind
And that's why he doesn't mind

For good living is a habit
Live it while you can
Soft sable furs, not rabbit
And super fast cars on mercantile credit
And why worry if the money isn't always real
You're as rich as you feel

And the lady you're in love with, none can be as sweet as her,
a beauty that's all of her own
And don't let them tell you different, It's got not to do with them,
take her and run to your home

For good living is a habit
Live it while you can
Soft sable furs, not rabbit
And super fast cars On mercantile credit
And why worry if the money isn't always real
You're as rich as you feel

So believe in what you're doing, and do the best you can,
no one does better than that
And don't let your troubles get you, ‘cause they'll get you if they can,
brush them up under a mat

For good living is a habit
Live it while you can
Soft sable furs, not rabbit
And super fast cars on mercantile credit
And why worry if the money isn't always real
You're as rich as you feel

Oh I wish I could be there, to throw flowers in the air
Maybe say a little prayer on the day
But this can't be, because I'm here across the sea
But I'll be thinking of you both anyway

Oh it would be so nice, to throw confetti and throw rice
And drink champagne as they send you off in style
I can picture it now, as you kneel to take the vow
And then walk proudly together down the aisle

And I wish you the best, and let time do the rest
As husband and wife for all of your life

As I retire to my bed, there's all so much that's left unsaid
And oh so little time to say it anyway

But I'm sure you will be well, as they ring the wedding bell
So good luck and have a lovely day

It's enough that we shared for a year, all the love and the hurt and the tears
But it's tough when you’ve something so rare, and in a puff it can all disappear

Just the wink of an eye or the hint of a sigh

When your tender goodbye touched my cheek,
how the years seem so much like a week
But I pray that some dreams you will keep,
like a voice that will call from the deep

Of my heart, of my mind, no don't leave that behind
For oh what A dream we had, oh what a dream we had

Oh what a dream we had, oh what a dream we had
But dreams are made of cobwebs, they sparkle in the sun
For silk and threads and thistleheads were never very strong
A shock of light can split the night
But knives cannot split wrong from right
So what was it that split us up tonight

For oh what a dream we had, oh what a dream we had
Oh what a dream we had, oh what a dream we had

Lessons for the day are over and you can go home my son
Put your books back in their cupboard and go out and have some fun

And wait inside the schoolhouse for the bell And grab your cap and run like hell
While dirty faces scream and yell together and slinging bricks into the well And eating snails straight from their shell
And pray to God that no one tells your mother

Lessons for the day are over and you can go home my son
Put your books back in their cupboard and go out and have some fun

But behind the school door you may hide to trip the lad who told the lie
Well schoolboy justice makes him cry for sorrow
But all too soon his pride will mend within the hour you'll find your friends
And he’s lent you the gun you want to borrow

Lessons for the day are over and you can go home my son
Put your books back in their cupboard and go out and have some fun

But keeping lizards in your desk and nicking bird’s eggs from their nest
Well that's okay ‘cause you'll confess on Sunday
And scrumping apples from next door, and hitting pigeons with a core
Well prepare yourself for another boring Monday

Lessons for the day are over and you can go home my son
Put your books back in their cupboard and go out and have some fun

The place beneath the cedar tree still calls me Commanding me within its arms to lay
And listen to the sounds of earth around me
The sweetest things to me those sounds would say

For oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight

And the sounds of leafy breezes brush the cedar
As my fingers Intermingle with your hair
And the woodlands precious perfume we were so drunk on
Oh was it summer madness that we shared

But oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight
Oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight

And the city things we saved but had no meaning
As barefoot we would run into the shade
Well was it then that I never really knew you
What did I do to make you so afraid

For oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight
Oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight

But the dogs that bark from across the apartment wake me
And take me from my thoughts of yesterday
Reflections of a love I barely touched on
But oh how sweet a touch like that can be

For oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight
Oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight
Oh how your eyes play music in the light
Who will they be playing for tonight

Good friend, a pal to the end, you've been around a long long time
Good times we've had, women and wine, I'm proud that you're a friend of mine

It seems I've known you now since Mom and Dad were young
Doing things together most everything we've done

I'll throw my troubles out I know you'll understand
I need a helping hand
I'm struggling on

Right now, well you can't hang around, well don't feel obliged because of me
I can see why tomorrow you can't be free
Well maybe you can tell me when you will be

It seems you've heard about the things they say I've done
And I must sort them out before the police come
Now you believe It don't you, don't you say I'm wrong
I’m trying to tell you, you know me well, I've no one else to turn to

Now turn around now boy
I cannot see a thing, your hair’s in braces, now seems sadly out of grace
Or are you telling me, this time's a different case, I'm on my own and so long

Good friend
Oh my fair weather friend, but someday they will send for you
Oh my fair weather friend, they'll ask what kind of man depends on you
And maybe then you'll see what you have done today
It's far far worse than any charge they'll put my way

This world will turn without you, now that others learn about you
But what a shame that you've became that way

Slowly, oh so slowly, the film runs through my head
Lingering a while on every frame
Faster, but then faster, so the picture starts to grow
Providing all my thoughts to know my way

Bringing me reality again, bringing me reality again

Far better that I turn again from whence I have just come
Where nothing is a friend I understand
I am king of everything yet touchable by none
But still this rude Intruder takes my hand

Bringing me reality again, bringing me reality again
My eyes swim in a sea of light, far greater than before
But never will I see those things the same
My ears have beaten back by an endless crushing roar
Awake oh sleepy mind and let them in

They're bringing me reality again, bringing me reality again

Invader of my privacy, respecting only time
Relentlessly approaching from behind
They're crashing like a tidal wave, to activate my mind
And bring to me in reality again

It's bringing me reality again
Bringing me reality again, bringing me reality again

I'll raise my glass to friends I've known
I'll raise it to my family
I'll drink a toast to those I've loved
Though they may not have wanted me

I'll board the boat that takes me back, to things and places I have known
I'll gaze with sadness at myself, and raise my hand, I'm going home

I'll look around at what I've done
And I’ll think of what it's done to me
It's hard to read between the lines
When you're not sure of all you see

But now and then I'll turn around
It seemed much clearer years ago
My head was high, my path was straight
Life's precious moments pass so slow

I’ll board the boat that takes me back, to things and places I have known
I'll gaze with sadness at myself and raise my hand, I'm going home

My lady Of music, my lady of song
Won't you sing to me, cling to me, take me along
With a tune if it’s love songs and places and time
Unveiling the thoughts as they turn in your mind

As they give you that wisdom that I'll never find
And yet it finds me and is gentle and kind like a song from my lady of music
How close you may be, but how far you may seem
And how long can I ride on the wings of this dream

Of this dream once so real and tied up so tight
A dream that was with us all day and all night
It danced in the dark and it flew in the light
Ignoring the truth but believing the rights

Like a song from my lady of music

Take your time lady fly lady, try not to think
Of the time we would climb through a sky painted pink

Like a rose but it faded and left me alone
To find my way down on my own
But how strange now I feel as our song starts to fade
Is it drifting too deep In the hope that I made

Of unfilled promises the words left unsaid
And words that were written but words never read
And words that were tender but left in my head
And words that were stubborn and stupid instead

Of a song of my lady of music
Llke a song of my lady, a song for my lady, a song for my lady of music

Well it’s said, or I may have read, about old flames that die
Well you'll never ever burn the same flame twice
Well if it's true, then In the case of you, you make it out as lies
‘Cause loving you again would sure be nice

How about loving me again, how about it, how about it
How about loving me again, how about it, how about it

Well I heard a rumor once that in a thunderstorm
Where lightning strikes, it’ll never strike again
Well maybe it's not thunder that you’re hearing now
But can't you feel a little drop of rain

How about loving me again, how about it, how about it
How about loving me again, how about it, how about it

Well I'll take you to the river where we swimmed before
Tickled by the world and trouble free
And the place across the way where we would play before
Well now how about you coming there with me

How about loving me again, how about it, how about it
How about loving me again, how about it, how about it

Rain, summer rain, gentle rain, can intoxicate my brain
Insane, maybe so, but I'll go, where the patterned rivers flow, in the rain

So warm is the afternoon, all my windows opened wide
The storm blown trees play out their tune,
I am drawn to go outside, outside
Where the calm of the day, can wash a care away
And I'll hide, in the fresh fragrant green,
that I'll be the first to see, since the rain

Rain, people fly to the dry, from a gray and cloudy sky
A shame, they won't know what they've missed,
if they never have been kissed, by the rain

And oh how the garden stretches out to grasp the air
And may I be pardoned if I only sit and stare, sit and stare
As the world is revived, it's so great to be alive
A prayer, seems so little to give,
but may everything that lives, survive

You sung to me a song so sweet I've never heard before
And the words they kept repeating in my head
But it's over in a minute, I'm so sad you did begin it
It is over, it is over, it is dead

You sung to me of summer days, you sung to me of war
And you got to me with every word you said
Of the things that kept you going, when an icy wind was blowing
Daily pleasures, daily trouble, daily bread

Your song was short but flowed on easily
Blood and thunder leave me cold
The tale we had was bright and breezily told

And so although the song went on for such a little time
Well I feel I am the wiser all the same
All the little things you taught me,
little pleasures that you brought me
Little troubles that we treat as little gains

Your song was short but flowed on easily
Blood and thunder leave me cold
The tale we had was bright and breezily told

You sung to me a song so sweet, I've never heard before
And the words they kept repeating in my head
But it's over in a minute, I'm so sad you did begin
It is over, it is over, it is dead