Sitting here contemplating on my life's past
Good times were few, others filled with strife
It's very clear my final dance has come at last
Sitting here in my own reflection of lonely life
At eight, I was already the age of twenty-eight
An education in life before my time, can't undo
No time for child hood fun, I worked fields late
I asked myself," Is there more in this life to do?"
Regrets are many, it's what I've grown to know
Far to late to feel sorry for myself, what the hell
Tears like a river in full rage, my banks over flow
See me waltzing 3/4 time at the heartbreak hotel
It has been said, "Live life to its fullest", I tried to
I lived each and every moment as if it were my last
I nearly tried everything at least once, what a rue!
I don't regret a damn thing I did in my youthful past
In my life, I have loved women and I've loved men
Living life hard, loving hard and even played hard
Wasn't a dance challenge I couldn't rise up to defend
The early hard work prepared me for a full dance card
I remember the many times I was verbally put down
Society rendered my family as misfits and mistakes
My heart harden, my soul filled with tears of a clown
All labels addressed to me, the punishment I did take
Would I live my life over again, knowing what I know?
I'd see America and her wonders before it is my time
"Act well my part, for there all honors lie", my motto
Thanks to those who helped to make my life just fine!
All the world is a stage for the young and the very old
Create amazing beauty within your time, make fancy
In life, dance to the music with all your heart and soul
I've lived to dance and it made my feet and soul Nancy
Tradgey prisoned me to dance the waltz of the lonely
The waltz of the lonely is all that's left for me to do
The times are changing and the dances go and come
Nothing mattered when there was the music and you