they called you a dreamer we were seventeen the years went by so fast now they call you other things all of the answers that you re dreamin of they say that it s natural but a grown man learns how to give em up you had an apartment and a woman once you paid the electric and the gas and water every month she said that she loved you and she wore your clothes now she s in dallas with a stand up guy and a four year old there s a world out there i know there is where they play my songs on their silver harps and their violins if you remember one thing remember this when the lights came up there was nothing left i could give all of your cousins and your relatives and confident husbands faithful model citizens you saw them at christmas when they left and sang you re so very different why the hell can t you just feel the same there s a world out there i know there is where they play my songs on their silver harps and their violins if you remember one thing remember this when the lights came up there was nothing left i could give sometimes a vision lights up your mind it s all you were given like fragile fruit on a fragile vine there s a world out there i know there is where they play my songs on their silver harps and their violins if you remember one thing remember this when the lights came up there was nothing left i could give