The Next Verse

There was a pool table there at the wedding
 That most of the men stood and played
 Whilst the women danced in their melancholy
 Till the last record started to fade
 And as D.J. turned the lights up
 And packed his records away
 He noticed a lonely figure still there
 So quietly turned to say
 Tears you thought lasted a lifetime
 Won't last too much more than a day
 And you'll prove that you still have your strength left
 When you wipe those tears well away, well away
 Roses in garden bring joy to the bleak
 Lilies save wretched from worse
 Music lifts up those too weary to speak
 So, sister you sing the next verse
 The path in life that you have taken
 I can figure out just from your frown
 Either it's down the up escalator
 Or maybe sometimes up the down
 And you may not feel that you have travelled
 But sure as hell been across town
 And certainly if story unravelled
 You've lost more than you ever found
 One thing's for certain I've travelled
 And a not too dissimilar route
 Those ups and downs and rounds after rounds
 You're wearing them just like a suit, like a suit
 So if roses bring joy to the bleak
 Lilies save wretched from worse
 Music lifts up those too weary to speak
 Then D.J. I'll take the next verse
 So sister judge strength not by muscle
 Or weight that your body can lift
 But by heavyweight heart that you carry
 That no other young woman could shift
 Hey Mr D.J. a special request
 Play that last record for me
 And make it as long and as painfully sad
 As any slow ballad could be