[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:39.20]You can say the soul is gone [00:44.64]And the feeling is just not there [00:50.71]Not like it was so long ago [01:00.63]On the empty page before you [01:06.01]You can fill in what you care [01:12.83]Try to make it new before you go [01:22.41]Take the simple case of the serge [01:28.37]Who won't go back to war' [01:33.76]Cause the hippies tore down [01:36.88]Everything that he was fighting for [01:45.26]Or the lovers on the blankets [01:51.66]That the city turned to whores [01:57.41]With memories of green kissed by the sun [02:08.85]You can say the soul is gone [02:14.24]And close another door [02:19.98]Just be sure that yours is not the one [02:35.25]And I'm singing for the stringman [02:41.10]Who lately lost his wife [02:46.65]There is no dearer friend of mine [02:51.85]That I know in this life [02:56.94]On his shoulder rests a violin [03:02.34]For his head where chaos reign [03:07.98]But his heart can't find a simple way [03:13.68]To live with all those things [03:21.24]All those things [03:27.08]He's a stringman [03:32.98]A stringman [03:37.77]All those strings to pull