Sorrow Takes A Bow

Sorrow Takes A Bow
by Tom Chapin
© 1975 The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

When the music’s gone and sorrow takes a bow
In an empty hall echoes fall with no one to hear them now,
And my life goes on without you anyhow.
It sure is hard when sorrow takes a bow.

Like the memory of a rainstorm
Or the shadow of a cloud,
Every promise that you made
Returns to haunt me now.
I was open for the moment
And your loving made me proud,
But it sure is hard
To face tomorrow now.

When the music’s gone and sorrow takes a bow
In an empty hall echoes fall with no one to hear them now,
And my life goes on without you anyhow.
It sure is hard when sorrow takes a bow.

A full moon lights an empty heart
And works across the sky.
I watch it travel all night long
Wondering how and why.
Like the lyric of a love song
I’ll remember ‘til I die
I’ll remember you
As if you’d really tried.

When the music’s gone and sorrow takes a bow
In an empty hall echoes fall with no one to hear them now,
And my life goes on without you anyhow.
It sure is hard when sorrow takes a bow.
And while my life goes on without you anyhow.
It sure is hard when sorrow takes a bow.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Life Is Like That CD.

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