RubyJoyful - Fiddler’s Lament

3. Fiddler’s Lament (5:13)

When Tuesday begins with the high mountain winds
Will you lay yourself down in the cold
With the light pouring through it’ll shine next to you
Make your body feel hungry and old

Now I can’t recall what you told me last fall
‘bout a song that you learned in a dream
It had pain, it had love, it had all the above
But you’re just not sure what it means

Ice covers the water
Like your hand grips the bow
It’s a fiddler’s lament of a song heaven sent
That was written a long time ago

He was larger than life as he made you his wife
As the song took a beautiful turn
You played it each night by the stove’s firelight
And it made you both tremble and burn

Every verse of the tune seemed to fill up the room
As you played the notes subtle and bent
Everyone sang along to that beautiful song
That they called the fiddler’s lament

Ice covers the water
Like your hand grips the bow
It’s a fiddler’s lament of a song heaven sent
That was written a long time ago

Somewhere in the water
Somewhere in the tune
Someone made a promise under the moon

Ya’ know songs that are true must be tragic and blue
And your pain is something you earn
If you think you’re the one whose beyond all this fun
Well you gotta lot left to learn

Now all that remains is a tired refrain
‘Bout a story we dare not create
And the chorus it goes as a good fiddler knows
That your strings cannot hide you from fate

Ice covers the water
Like your hand grips the bow
It’s a fiddler’s lament of a song heaven sent
That was written a long time ago
It’s a fiddler’s lament of a song heaven sent
That was written a long time ago