Title: “The Violin Knows” (Verse 1) Oh tell me, violin of fire How do you dance with grief? How do your strings keep laughing While crying underneath? You lift me to the mountains Where golden eagles fly Then throw me in the valleys Where broken dreamers die I studied all the old ways Drew circles in the sand Measured every sorrow Trying hard to understand But every road I wandered Every wise and sacred plan Still ended in the midnight song Of your weeping violin (Chorus) Hey-ay, gypsy violin Why do you sing my pain? You make my soul start dancing While tears fall down like rain Hey-ay, cursed melody You pull my heart apart Half of me is wild and free Half is made of scars (Verse 2) I rode across the Eastlands To temples far in China Searching for a secret To heal this heart of mine I saw the buried soldiers Still guarding kings below Silent men of clay and dust From centuries ago I thought maybe cold could freeze The sadness in my veins So I sailed toward the Northlands Through ice and frozen rains Among the halls of Vikings Where ghostly oceans moan Even there my restless soul Still felt completely alone And my lungs became an instrument Breathing old refrains Every breath another echo Of forgotten chains Every night the same old sorrow Every dawn the same refrain Like a drunk man speaking poetry To shadows in the rain (Chorus) Hey-ay, gypsy violin Why do you sing my pain? You make my soul start dancing While tears fall down like rain Hey-ay, wandering tune You haunt me like the sea One moment I am flying high Next drowning endlessly (Bridge) Now I shake beside the fire Speaking to the night Asking all the stars above me “How do I make this right?” Should I smash these tired strings now? Should I let the music die? Or is sorrow just a language Only lost hearts can describe? Tambourines and old guitars Play around the flame While every lonely traveler Cries in different names Maybe every human spirit Carries hidden storms And maybe broken melodies Are how the soul transforms (Final Chorus) Hey-ay, gypsy violin Don’t leave me here alone Take these shattered memories And turn them into song Hey-ay, wild melody Teach my heart again How to dance beside the sorrow Without becoming pain So play on through the darkness Till the morning sun arrives For the ones who carry sadness Are the ones who feel alive…
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