Orpheus is playing the troubadour
Singing his heartbreak songs
The ones about Eurydice
The crowd cringes and yawns
He`s cut off all his guitar strings
So he`s standing up there alone
Silence where there was once music
While he sings into the microphone
It`s so hard being so close
But still just out of reach
To something in the darkness
That the light won`t let me keep
She vanished sometime in the spring
Most people thought she was dead
Others say that they saw her
Leaving on a midnight jet
Now Orpheus acts like he`s holy
Like grief has given him wings
Searching the globe looking for her
Tears in his eyes while he sings
It`s so hard being so close
But still just out of reach
To something in the darkness
That the light won`t let me keep
He found her one day in Morocco
Living breathing and well
Out there writing a novel
A memoir called my life in hell
He begged her to follow him home
Saying I`ve come here to save you
She told him to go back alone
Saying baby it`s over I`m through
The night that I left I found you in bed
With my old roommate Jane
You were under the covers giving her head
So I walked out and boarded a plane
It`s so hard being so close
But still just out of reach
To something in the darkness
That the light won`t let me keep