i'm coming 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 without      and his heart lives in my song   and the melody comes   and just as quickly the melody is gone   i'm back alone, far from home      [now my mamma's all alone   i try to see her and call her on the phone]   after all that she's been through   all the doctors say: "there ain't nothing we can do"      but her heart lives in my song   and the melody comes   and just as quickly the melody is gone   i'm back alone, far from home      there's a bird outside my window   who takes the song where he goes   and he leaves it there   like a dead man's rocking chair      and tonight i'm feeling lost   oh i'm headin' on down the highway out to boston   i get the sense i might lose it   i thank god tonight for the light i've got in music      'cause my heart lives in this song   but the melody comes   and just as quickly, the melody is gone   i'm back alone, far from home