Song came and went like the times that we spent   Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent   I'd laugh and he'd smile and it would last for a while   You don't know what you got 'til you lose it all again      Listen to the mandolin rain, listen to the music on a lake   Listen to my heart break, everytime that he goes away   Listen to the banjo wind, a sad song drifting low   Listen to my tears roll down my face as he turns to go      Cool evening dance, listening to the bluegrass band   Takes the chill from the air 'til they play the last song   And I'll do my time keeping you off my mind but there's moments   That I find, I'm not feeling so strong      Listen to the mandolin rain, listen to the music on the lake   Listen to my heart break, everytime that he goes away   Listen to the banjo wind, a sad song drifting low   Listen to my tears roll down my face as he turns to go      Running down by the lakeshore   He did love the sound of a summer storm   It played on a lake like a mandolin   Now it's washing him away once again, once again      Listen to the mandolin rain, listen to the music on the lake   Listen to my heart break, everytime that he goes away   Listen to the banjo wind, a sad song drifting low   Listen to my tears roll down my face as he turns to go   Listen to my tears roll down my face as he turns to go