Consolation

I can only comfort myself singing
I can’t do anything else for consolation
When everybody’s gone
I sing to comfort myself
When I’m all alone
I can’t do anything else
For consolation

Other people’s music just can’t do it
No book or walking along the sea
No film no television
I got to sing to change the way I feel

The moment I’m alone
Without a place to go
I miss the ones who died and feel
What I couldn’t feel anymore

Got a rich man’s blues
It’s just a thing in me
A thing that stayed within
A kind of infidelity

Every night I dream
How you want to leave me
Attracted by some other man
A better man than me
And then I dream I got to play somewhere
But I can’t find out where
And forget the words to all my songs
And still keep singing

But in my dreams I never die
I got to carry on
Not knowing where to go
Nobody to love anymore