Player Piano- GLYNDA

there once was an elephant there once was a spruce tree there once was raw iron and sand before me. now they see a piano, they see a machine A player piano Just like me. Here at its keys - I generate tones stolen and broken - nothing my own a song with no singer just playing the bones a song with no singer just sounds with no home There once was invention there once was capacity There once was music before there was me. now I see a piano, I see a machine A player piano Just like me. Here at its keys - I generate tones stolen and broken - nothing my own a song with no singer just playing the bones a song with no singer just sounds with no home Here in myself - I dream of a tree whose leaves shade the hot sands for an elephant and me the iron remembers the sand and I remember the hands Who crafted machines to sing about what they once had! a song with no singer just playing the bones a song with no singer just sounds with no soul Just like me. Just like me.