How can I go on when every thought hurts    I flirt with the notion of no more songs    My old familiar foe, self pity, haunts me       I´m stuck in some over-the-mountain town    In a meaningless bar where fat hands   round the steiners    And no one cares if it suns or pours    In an hour between trains   Barney puts the record on    And the aimless rise to dance       Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you   I see you, George, in your    apartment on Riverside Drive    Some fifty years ago   Your fingers on the keys    Looking for the song   Looking for that hook       Embrace me, you irreplaceable you      Who were you then?    Did you have a woman?    Were you hard up for cash?    Did you ever know you´d be heard in    the middle distance    In some over-the-mountain town?       Connecting to the muscles of the dancers    In this close and smoky room    Who were you then?    Were you sure of your tune?    Or were your dreams and your courage all broken down like mine?       Now there´s something that clutches the heart   A melody that stays    Year after year    I love all the many charms about you    Above all I want my arms around you      I´m already late for my train   But I don´t think about that    I think of you, George   At your piano, sweating in the summer heat   By the way, did you get your girl,   Did you by your house in the country?    Did you wait for something that never came?    Did you die still waiting for your train?       Don´t be a naughty baby, come to mama    come to mama do      Some part of your heart twists and turns in mine    Your soul rises    There´s an angel in charge    There´s one note that weeps the truth    And makes my life mean something    Just for the length of   Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you   Embrace me, you irreplaceable you   Don´t be a naughty baby, come to mama,    come to mama do       I will go home, I will try again   I will catch the train   Catch another breath    Move back to the piano and    let the notes do what they´ll do    In honor of you, George   In honor of you