The Old Violin

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 damnedest feelin'
 I never felt it before
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 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 feeling
 Would just go away
 I guess it's 'cause the truth
 Is the hardest thing I ever faced
 'Cause you can't change the truth
 In the slightest way I tried
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 So I asked myself
 I said, "John
 Where do you go from here?"
 Then like a fool
 I turned around
 I looked in the mirror
 And there I was seein'
 An old violin
 Soon to be put away
 And never played again
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 So one more time
 Just to be sure
 I said, "John
 Where in the hell do you go from here?"
 And you know there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference
 When I looked in the mirror
 'Cause there I was seein'
 An old violin
 Soon to be put away
 And never played again
 And just like that, it hit me
 That an old violin and I were just alike
 We'd give our all to music
 And soon, we'd give our life
 Precious memories, how they linger