comin from a long line of pain my family suffered greatly for my gain and I think a lot about how my daddy died so I would not live with it and his heart lives in my song the melody comes and just as quickly the melody is gone and I'm back alone far from home now my mamma's all alone I try to call and see her when I'm home after all that she's seen and been through oh the doctors say there's nothin we can do and her heart lives in my song the melody comes and just as quickly the melody is gone and I'm back alone far from home there's a bird outside my window who takes the song where he goes and leaves it there like a dead man's rockin chair and tonight I'm feelin lost and headin down the highway out to boston I get the sense I might lose it I thank god tonight for the light I got in music cause my heart lives in this song the melody comes and just as quickly the melody is gone I'm back alone far from home