Carly Simon In Honor Of You (george) Lyrics

In Honor Of You (george) Lyrics

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 Steiner's

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