Piano
Written by Jimmy Webb
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Version 1 is a live recording, performed solo with piano, during a concert in Salem, Oregon, on June 24, 2005
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Version 2 is a live rehearsal recording, performed in the living room of the "band house" (where the Solid Rock office was at the time) in Salem, Oregon in the week prior to Larry's Elsinore concert
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lyrics version 1
It's the evening of my day
No one left to say goodbye to
Except for you
Piano
You're not listening anyway
You're not even going to try to
Are ya [Spoken]
But this song is for you
Dear piano
Seems like it always ends up with me
Spinning my piano stool
While you just sit there
Grinning like a fool
But this last song I'd like to play
Don't wanna keep you up all night though
I'll make it short
And mellow
I feel tired in my own way
I will try to stay upright though
Just like you
Piano
Keep on smiling and we'll make it through
Keep on smiling and we'll pull each other through
And then softly we'll sing our closing number
And then fade, fade away
No one left to say goodbye to
Except for you
Piano
You're not listening anyway
You're not even going to try to
Are ya [Spoken]
But this song is for you
Dear piano
Seems like it always ends up with me
Spinning my piano stool
While you just sit there
Grinning like a fool
But this last song I'd like to play
Don't wanna keep you up all night though
I'll make it short
And mellow
I feel tired in my own way
I will try to stay upright though
Just like you
Piano
Keep on smiling and we'll make it through
Keep on smiling and we'll pull each other through
And then softly we'll sing our closing number
And then fade, fade away
lyrics version 2
...Stay upright though
Just like you, piano
I got nothing left to sing
I will say goodnight to you
Hmm mmh
It's just like you, piano
I will sing a song and keep on shining through
??? [Spoken]
Eh [Spoken]
Ah-ah la da da da da do
Ah
And then face da da da da
Yeah, that's pretty
No, that's not where it goes but, um [Spoken, by Larry]
According to the, according to ??? [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah. Hey em, let's stick that, that tuning point, let's stick that after the third verse [Spoken, by Larry]
Okay [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Let's. No, no, just, just try it now before you write it down. Let's just, before we put it in stone [Spoken, by Larry]
??? I just ??? off that's [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, it's just that on my, I don't know. It's just my ear says oh, I had another chord there [Spoken, by Larry]
Okay [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
But, but, it's, it's not that important [Spoken, by Larry]
Um so [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Da da da ba ba da da [ETC]
Yeah [Spoken]
La da da da da
Don't write it down [Spoken, by Larry]
Just like you, piano
I got nothing left to sing
I will say goodnight to you
Hmm mmh
It's just like you, piano
I will sing a song and keep on shining through
??? [Spoken]
Eh [Spoken]
Ah-ah la da da da da do
Ah
And then face da da da da
Yeah, that's pretty
No, that's not where it goes but, um [Spoken, by Larry]
According to the, according to ??? [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah. Hey em, let's stick that, that tuning point, let's stick that after the third verse [Spoken, by Larry]
Okay [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Let's. No, no, just, just try it now before you write it down. Let's just, before we put it in stone [Spoken, by Larry]
??? I just ??? off that's [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, it's just that on my, I don't know. It's just my ear says oh, I had another chord there [Spoken, by Larry]
Okay [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
But, but, it's, it's not that important [Spoken, by Larry]
Um so [Spoken, by Dan Cutrona]
Da da da ba ba da da [ETC]
Yeah [Spoken]
La da da da da
Don't write it down [Spoken, by Larry]