What Can a Song Do to You?

Music from an open window

Music, sudden, fleeting

Music from an open window

Music, sudden, fleeting

Music from an open window

Music, sudden and fleeting

Ordinary music in an ordinary street

Why does your heart start beating?

What can a song do to you?

Can it wake a memory sleeping?

Can it call back a day

When your heart fled away

Into somebody else's keeping?

What can a song do to you?

Can it bring back a spring in December?

Can it make with each note

Such an ache in your throat

That you find you can still remember?

For the past is a house

Full of treasure

That lies buried deep in the store

Every smile, every tear

Every pleasure

And a song is the key to the door

Music from an open window

Music, sudden, fleeting

Music from an open window

Music, sudden, fleeting

What can a song do to you?

Can it kindle a flame that was dying

Till it burns once again

With its joy, with its pain

And your heart's all the sudden crying?

Oh, I know, yes, I know

Now I sing

What a song has done to me

As we were walking down the street

It came from a high up window

Six notes of music

And her feet, as though the road was suddenly steep

And heavy with the summer's heat

Came slower and very slow

Stop and tell me why you weep

Turn this way and look at me

Does it remind you of a time when you were sad?

Well, no

But it reminds me of a time when I could be

It reminds me of a time when I could be