Sad Trombone

From way back here on the bandstand

She look like a goddess in the lights

At some point in the set she turned her face

And glance my way most nights

I take a little solo

I play for her, she smile, return the favor

I'd make the sweetest love to her

With ever semi quiver

There's a sadness in your plan she said

That penetrates my bones

Something in your intonation, something in your tone

Always understated, but never over blown

My name for your is sad trombone

Yes, my name for you is sad trombone

It'd seemed like she found the secret key to my soul

And gathered up my broken life and somehow made me whole

We'd share our room together, my band mates were all green

And they warned me 'bout some story in a movie they'd all seen

There's a sadness in your plan she said

That penetrates my bones

Something in your intonation, something in your tone

Always understated, but never over blown

My name for your is sad trombone

Yes, my name for you is sad trombone

Now when the light goes out and the music stops and the curtain close

That's when the heartbeat race, sadness on your face

You can't take no more

I see you searchin' for your smile, we haven't seen that in a while

Now when the light goes out and the music stops and the curtain close

That sad trombone

Never made much money and the ticket counts were light

We count the bars until we reached some hotel for the night

She was my morning coffee, the butter on my toast

Till she got a better offer from some outfit on the coast

Whoa, there's a sadness in my playing now

A desperate cry, a moan

Something in my choice of notes, something in my tone

Slide into the deepest bass from a lonely baritone

I guess I always be the sad trombone

I guess I always be the sad trombone

It's an old, old story, one you've probably heard

You start out in a major key then you're down a minor third

Aimlessly sliding, sinking like a stone

It doesn't get no deeper than the scraps that you been thrown

But somethings, they just stay with you but after they have flown

And it always comes back down to the bone

And it always comes back down to the bone

Down to the bone

Down to the bone

Down to the bone

Down to the bone

Down to the bone, yeah