Well, I can't recall, one time in my life
I've felt as lonely as I do tonight
I feel like I could lay down, and get up no more
It's the damndest feelin'; I never felt it before.

Tonight I feel like an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again
Don't ask me why I feel like this, hell, I can't say
I only wish this feelin' would just go away.

I guess it's 'cos the truth
Is the hardest thing I ever faced
'Cos you can't change the truth
In the slightest way. I tried.

So I asked myself
I said: "John, where'd you go from here?"
Then like a damned fool
I turned around and looked in the mirror.

And there I saw, an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again.

So one more time, just to be sure
I said: "John, where in the hell do you go from here?"
You know that when a nickel's worth of difference
And I looked in the mirror, that's when I knew.

That there I was seein', an old violin
Soon to be put away, and never played again.

And just like that, it hit me
That old violin and I were just alike
We'd give our all to music
And soon, we'd give our life...