Never Lived At All - Ellis Paul

Becky's playing a piece by Gershwin on her old piano 
She's been playing since her childhood, "Too long to recall..."
but the chords that fall from her fingertips, are the same 
she played when she could barely sit still, back in `69,
when the keys made her hands look small 
And she built her dream around symphonies and concertos 
around traveling the country, and playing the music halls 
four kids later the dreams been reduced to "what-if" scenarios 
but hey, to never dream is to have never lived at all 
Never lived at all 

Dave's a corporate lawyer in the city of Chicago 
and for fifteen years, he's had his nose to the old grindstone 
poured his money in the bank to feed the beast called portfolio 
Well, if time is money then success is a life alone 

You can look out at the skyline for some forgiveness 
When you invest in love, the same will be returned 
He has prided himself on a lifetime of spoken directness 
It took him forty years to hear the lesson learned 
Has he never lived at all?
Never lived at all...