///*****/// [Intro] An amp in a garage And a gold record that never came [Verse 1] We had a van and a demo tape And a manager named Ray And a residency in Bridgeport Every other Saturday And a guy from a label came out once And he stood there at the bar And he watched the second set And he said we'd go far And he did not call in April And he did not call in June And Ray stopped coming round And the van broke down in Rome, New York [Pre-Chorus] And it did not end in a fistfight And it did not end in a blaze It just quietly stopped happening Over a hundred ordinary days [Chorus] So we kissed the sky goodbye On a Tuesday in the rain Put the dream inside a hard case And we never played again And nobody wrote about it And nobody even cried We just packed the gear up quietly And we kissed the sky goodbye We kissed the sky goodbye [Verse 2] Now Petey drives a forklift And he is happier than me And Sal has got a family And a boat down by the sea And I have got a music shop Where I sell the kids their strings And I tell them all it's worth it And I mean the whole damn thing Because it was, and it is And I would do it all again For four years of believing That the sky was ours to spend [Pre-Chorus] Because there is a kind of failing That is better than a win It is the kind where you found out Exactly who you were within [Chorus] So we kissed the sky goodbye On a Tuesday in the rain Put the dream inside a hard case And we never played again And nobody wrote about it And nobody even cried We just packed the gear up quietly And we kissed the sky goodbye We kissed the sky goodbye [Verse 3] Last November in the shop This kid came in with a Les Paul And he asked me if I ever Nearly made it after all And I laughed and said not really And I sold him a set of strings And when he left I sat down heavy On the amp behind the till And I played the second song That we opened with in eighty-two And the shop was very quiet And the sound was very true [Pre-Chorus] And I was twenty-three again For about four minutes flat And Ray was at the back And Petey counted us in fast [Bridge] So do not tell me it was wasted And do not call it a mistake There are men who never wanted Anything enough to break And I wanted it so badly That it took a decade back [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] So we kissed the sky goodbye On a Tuesday in the rain Put the dream inside a hard case But the case is in the frame And I open it on Sundays And the strings still hold the tune And I never really said goodbye And I never really moved We just kissed the sky goodbye [Coda] Here is to the almost And the nearly and the not Here is to the four of us And everything we got Here is to the second set In Bridgeport in the rain Where for one entire evening We were absolutely great [Outro] An amp in a garage And a gold record that never came And a man who has no regrets And a hard case that still plays
