Song Description

This song describes how two people realizing different levels of success in the music industry ultimately share the same results.

Lyrics

ALL THAT?S LEFT IS STARDUST


She hums the song she wrote last night as she pours out another cup
Of inspiration for that driver who would die to pick her up
Been waiting tables twenty years so she could sing her dreams at night
She can?t help but feel the sorrow for the things she sacrificed--
One true love, white picket fences, dogs and children in the yard
Always thought she?d have them someday-- but it wasn?t in the cards
And she thinks what could have been, but never was, and sheds a tear
?Cause her rainbow has no end and all that?s left of all those years is stardust

chorus
It?s hard to make a wish on something you can?t see
Some nights your star?s behind the clouds, or just out of your reach
Win or lose, you try to be just who you?d like to be
But sometimes all that?s left is stardust

His first encore at the Opry was in 1965
Gold records on the airwaves-- the hottest thing alive
But after forty years and fifty million miles he?s feelin? strange
See the radio won?t play him ?cause the music?s not the same
The towns are small, the road?s too long, the bus keeps breakin? down
The girls have gotten old-- now they don?t even come around
He wonders where the money and the crowds have disappeared
His road is at an end and all that?s left of all those years is stardust

It?s hard to make a wish on something you can?t see
Some nights your star?s behind the clouds, or just out of your reach
And win or lose, you try to be just who you?d like to be
But sometimes all that?s left is stardust

It?s hard to make a wish on something you can?t see
Some nights your star?s behind the clouds, or just out of your reach
And win or lose, you try to be just who you?d like to be
But sometimes all that?s left is stardust
Sometimes all that?s left is stardust



Written by Ginger and Billy Anderson/Roger Ferguson

© 2005 Where?s Ruth Music