Johnny Paycheck Old Violin (1986) lyrics

Johnny Paycheck
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Old Violin (1986)
Well I can't recall one time in my life
That I felt as lonely as I do now
I feel like I could lay down and get up no more
It's the damnedest feeling 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 hope this feeling would just go away

I guess because 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 damned fool I turned around and looked in a 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
You know there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference when I looked on the mirror

That's when I knew that there I was seeing an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again
And just like that it hit me that old violin and I was just alike
We give our all to music pretty soon we'll give our life