Becky's playing a piece by gershwin on her old She's been since her childhood, "too long to recall..." But the chords that fall her fingertips, are the same She played when she could sit still, back in `69, When the keys her hands look small
And she built her dream around symphonies and Around traveling the country, and the music halls Four kids later the 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 years, he's had his nose to the old grindstone Poured his in the bank to feed the beast called portfolio Well, if time is money success is a life alone
You can look out at the for some forgiveness When you in love, the same will be returned He has prided himself on a lifetime of directness It took him forty years to hear the learned Has he never lived at lived at all...
Never at all
The great american novel sits on top of peter's kitchen 300 pages on a town he built of his head He signs the cover page, uncorks the with the dusty label Pours his wife a glass, she says "baby, 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, kiss the seal of each envelope Better to live in hope than to never lived at all To live at all Never at all