[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