I met him in a bar in town I was playing guitar for some people that were down But no-one there was listening just he was He caught my eye as I sang some songs Though he'd never heard them, he sang along So when my set was done I got a drink and joined him Now that's not the sort of thing I do Cos strangers mostly make me blue We talked a bit, 'bout gigs n things guitars, songs and how to sing He told me that some years ago he used to do a show A one-man act of songs he wrote Tales he told and jokes he spoke [But in that|In all the] music he had made there was one song he'd never played. Then he asked if he could sing it for his wife He said she'd been the reason for his life Then he sang: -chorus- I will come when you call I will catch you when you fall Through good times and bad I'll share it all For I love you. I will stand by your side For the rest of my life forever, together as husband and wife For I love you - And as he sang, she came on in Old and frail, and tired and thin And she just looked at him In his eye, I saw a tear I guessed he didn't think, she'd find him here This smokey little bar, strumming someones old guitar And listener, that's when I was amazed For then she went and joined him on the stage and they sang -chorus- Well we shouted for more, yeah we clapped and we cheered The drunks and the lonely, the loved and the feared But they would not do an encore, She said "their song was done" So I went to the bar, I wasn't gone long But when I turned back, the lady was gone And no-one there had seen what I had seen It was as-if she had never been I went back to my table, the old man was there I gave him a drink, and sat in my chair Then realised from his eyes nothing live was left inside I'd never heard the song that they had sung for me 'though I'm sure that they still sing it in eternity -chorus- |
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