[00:30.28]You can say the soul is gone
[00:35.71]And the feeling is just not there
[00:40.46]
[00:41.46]Not like it was so long ago.
[00:46.58]
[00:51.65]On the empty page before you
[00:56.46]
[00:57.34]You can fill in what you care
[01:00.64]
[01:03.78]Try to make it new before you go.
[01:08.90]
[01:13.46]Take the simple case of the sarge
[01:17.65]
[01:19.53]Who can't go back to war
[01:22.84]
[01:24.83]'Cause the hippies
[01:26.77]tore down everything
[01:28.90]
[01:29.59]that he was fighting for.
[01:31.65]
[01:36.46]Or the lovers on the blankets
[01:40.46]
[01:42.90]That the city turned to whores
[01:46.03]
[01:48.59]With memories
[01:50.09]of green kissed by the sun.
[01:54.89]
[01:59.90]You can say the soul is gone
[02:04.15]
[02:05.28]And close another door
[02:08.15]
[02:11.03]Just be sure
[02:12.72]that yours is not the one.
[02:16.02]
[02:26.47]And I'm singing for the stringman
[02:30.71]
[02:32.21]Who lately lost his wife
[02:35.91]
[02:37.77]There is no dearer friend of mine
[02:43.02]That I know in this life.
[02:47.03]
[02:48.09]On his shoulder rests a violin
[02:53.65]For his head where chaos reigns
[02:57.40]
[02:59.22]But his heart
[03:00.46]can't find a simple way
[03:04.84]To live with all those things.
[03:08.78]
[03:12.59]All those things
[03:15.40]
[03:18.58]He's a stringman
[03:21.72]
[03:24.27]A stringman
[03:27.22]
[03:29.22]All those strings to pull