Some will strut and some will fret See this an hour on the stage Others will not but they'll sweat In their hopelessness in their rage We're all the same men of anger And the women of the page
They published your diary And that's how I got to know you The key to the room of your own And a mind without end
And here's a young girl On a kind of a telephone line through time And the voice at the other end Comes like a long lost friend
So I know I'm alright Life will come and life will go Still I feel it's alright 'Cause I just got a letter to my soul
And when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughs in my face You say "Each life has it's place"
The hatches were battened The thunder clouds rolled and the critics stormed The battle surrounded the white flag of your youth If you need to know that you weathered the storm Of cruel mortality A hundred years later I'm sittin' here living proof
So you know you're alright (Life will come and go) Life will come and life will go Still you'll feel it's alright (Someone gets your soul) Someone'll get a letter to your soul
When your whole life is on the tip of your tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughed in your face Did you hear me say "Each life has its place"?
The place where you hold me Is dark in a pocket of truth The moon had swallowed the sun And the light of the earth
And so it was for you When the river eclipsed your life And sent your soul like a message In a bottle to me And it was my rebirth
So we know we're alright Though life will come, life will go Still you'll feel it's alright (Someone gets your soul) Someone'll will get a letter to your soul
(An' when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue) An' when you know you're alright And you feel you're alright (Empty pages for the no longer young) You'll say dry our eyes (You said)
(And you said) And you feelin' dry your eyes (Each life has it's place) You know it's all right (It'll be alright) And it's all riiight