Never Lived At All Lyrics - Ellis Paul

Becky's playing a piece by gershwin on her old piano 

She's been playing since her childhood, "too long to recall..." 

But the chords that fall from her fingertips, are the same 

She played when she could barely sit still, back in `69, 

When the keys made her hands look small 

And she built her dream around symphonies and concertos 

Around traveling the country, and playing the music halls 

Four kids later the dreams been reduced to "what-if" scenarios 

But hey, to never dream is to have never lived at all 

Never lived at all 

Dave's a corporate lawyer in the city of chicago 

And for fifteen years, he's had his nose to the old grindstone 

Poured his money in the bank to feed the beast called portfolio 

Well, if time is money then success is a life alone 

You can look out at the skyline for some forgiveness 

When you invest in love, the same will be returned 

He has prided himself on a lifetime of spoken directness 

It took him forty years to hear the lesson learned 

Has he never lived at all? 

Never lived at all... 

Never lived at all 

The great american novel sits on top of peter's kitchen table 

300 pages on a town he built inside of his head 

He signs the cover page, uncorks the bottle with the dusty label 

Pours his wife a glass, she says "baby, bring the bottle to bed" 

At 6 am he's out fighting the cars on the freeway 

And fighting his manuscript, has he written his own downfall? 

But he'll embrace rejection, he'll kiss the seal of each envelope 

Better to live in hope than to never have lived at all 

To never live at all 

Never live at all