My phantom brother came to me His backlit face was hard to see I couldn't move I couldn't scream You can't un-hear Beethoven's Fifth This human heart's an aggregate Competing feelings so disparate And strange Life's a solitary song No one to clap or sing along It sounds so sweet, and then it's gone So suddenly ♪ My ageing mother steeled herself Against the gravity she felt Braced for another fainting spell Fell in her mind through a trap door We picked her up off of the floor When she came to, her throat was sore And she spoke Life's a game of Solitaire Amusement rides at county fairs The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair Ends suddenly Where'd it go? ♪ Life's a lonely love affair Kaleidoscope beyond compare It vanishes into thin air So suddenly