I'm not like them, but I can pretend

Well the night

It's swirls around me

And the moonlight shines on down

While dogs sing along

In the back yard

In time with the crickets' sound

 

I can sit

In the corner listening

To the music of the night

But I just can't

Seem to forget

All the years that passed me by

 

Every joke that made me laugh

Every farewell that made me cry

Are all played back to my ears

By the music of the night

 

Please don't stop playing.......

 

The sound of

Wind through the trees

And the water running in the stream

In rhythm

With the owl's call

And a deer running through the street

 

It's taken years

To realize

That life is too short to leave

The books

Unread, unwritten

Just because we won't believe

 

Every joke that made me laugh

Every farewell that made me cry

Are all played back to my ears

By the music of the night

 

And if the years

Have taught me nothing

Well I guess that would be a lie

Because I believe

That something's

Are too precious to ever let die

 

So I'll sit

In the corner listening

To the music of the night

And remember

What I've let go

That I will eventually find