We re Passing Through Life On a Song

From the nursery-rhyme tunes of the children,
To the funeral dirge played at the end,
You wander through life in the arms of a song,
And the music s your favorite friend.

From those rock-n-roll songs with your sweetheart,
To the music on her wedding day,
The organ was playing and your eyes were blurring
As you watched her and him drive away&

The song doesn t last, no, it s fading too fast,
And you can t hold the note very long,
It s a little off key but it warms you and me:
We re passing through life on a song.

From those uncensored songs when you re drinking,
To the taps at the soldier s farewell,
Those lullabies crooned to your very first child,
To those hymns that brought you home from Hell.

As hamlet might say, the question in this:
To sing or not to sing?
The answer s so easy and I know you know
Yes, your life is a song on the wing&
1983