MUSIC FOR SALE

The man came out of nowhere
With a beaten up guitar
Picked a melody and sang a word
We all just sat there staring
By the fire under stars
As he played the saddest song we ever heard

He's a lonely spirit playin'
All y'heartache and desire
Comin' from y'deepest darkness
the stranger at the fire

The stranger weaved a story
of a stranger just like him
Appeared one night to share an aching song
With a lyric full of heartbreak
Oh, so desolate and grim
And a melody so right that it was wrong

He's a lonely spirit playin'
All y'heartache and desire
Comin' from y'deepest darkness
the stranger at the fire

[BRIDGE]
The song became a shattered thing
A broken and a battered thing
The only thing that mattered in
That circle round the fire
Where the sweet, sad melody?
Where the song that let us be
In perfect synchronicity
With his lost desire?

When the bridge arrived we crossed it
To his emptiness and pain
For a moment empathy inscribed us all
Then suddenly discordance
As the chorus rang again
And all the rising joy began to fall
One final note and silence then
Flame shifted and a flare
Everyone was blinded by the light
When sight returned we looked to see
The stranger was not there
He disappeared again into the night

He's a lonely spirit playin'
All y'heartache and desire
Comin' from y'deepest darkness
the stranger at the fire
Oh the loneliness within you
Is a softly singing choir
And he plays until it breaks you
The stranger at the fire
The stranger at the fire
The stranger at the fire