Story Behind The Song

I dunno, you'd have to ask Larry. I think he wrote these lyrics while slumming in the streets of San Francisco.

Song Description

A song about having a dream and losing it because of making a mistake in life and having to spend the rest of one's life paying for it.

Lyrics

Staring at the cracks in the wall
their getting harder to hide
but still they hold back the falls
the clock is ticking and I'm counting the years
It's marching steady to the beat
the beat of a thousand tears

Someday you're sure to find me
out walking alone
Backed into a corner
I call my home
Singing the song
the song I never wrote

The voices I hear tell me double my bet
another charity case
I seem to cast out my net
I feel the sun burning blindly
in the shadow of time
It passed me faster before
I paid the price, the price for my crime

Someday you're sure to find me
out walking alone
Avoiding every face
I've ever known
singing the song
the song I never wrote

I see the faces, through the pain they pretend
and then the memories flash-
play it back to the end
and all the portraits of love
in all the letters I sent
would just be read from the page
and not the way, the way that I meant

Someday you're sure to find me
out walking alone
backed into a corner I call my home
singing the song
the song I never wrote
the song I never wrote
the song I never wrote
the song I never wrote, for you