Up On the Shelf

<br>I used to play the trumpet once but now I play guitar<br>Somebody told you it`s more mellow.<br>Well I`ve played a lot of music since but I really haven`t grown that far<br>Somebody said that you`re just yellow.<br><br>So I keep it up on the shelf<br>And it`s funny how you keep it all to yourself<br>Hey honey, could there ever be,<br>Should there ever be,<br>Could there ever be something else?<br><br>You know I used to swing my silver sword, the dragons hit the ground<br>Whatever happened to the maidens?<br>Well I`d swing my silver sword again and they would all fall down<br>Would you leave them lying there where you had laid them?<br><br>And I used to have a country once, where it`s gone I do not know.<br>Where do you think you might have lost it?<br>I used to raise the flag at dawn, but that was very long ago<br>Maybe you can find it where you tossed it.<br><br>Well I tossed it up on the shelf<br>And it`s funny how you`ve kept it all for yourself<br>Hey honey, could there ever be,<br>Should there ever be,<br>Could there ever be something else?<br><br>I used to say my prayers boys, I used to sing the hymns<br>Even the echo`s disappearing.<br>They`ve broken the stained windows, the cathedral`s getting dim.<br>Then what is this dirge that we are hearing?<br><br>Well it comes from up on the shelf<br>And it`s funny how you sing it only for yourself<br>Hey honey, could there ever be,<br>Should there ever be,<br>Could there ever be something else?<br><br>Well, I used to have a lover once, I used to have a friend<br>How in the hell you ever find one?<br>My song is almost over now, my story`s at an end<br>You lived yourself a good life but a blind one.<br><br>Well I`ve hidden there up on the shelf<br>And it`s funny how you`ve kept it all for yourself<br>Hey honey, could there ever be,<br>Should there ever be,<br>Could there ever be something else?