lirik lagu neil bartram – i didn’t see alvin
(alvin addresses a gathering at the chapel.)
[alvin]
thank you all for coming. we’re gathered to honor the memory of my father, gordon kelby
[thomas]
i snuck into the gallery of the chapel to watch him ~ to watch him try to do what i’ve devoted years of my life to doing!
[alvin]
let me tell you a story about my father
[thomas]
look at him standing there! look at him ~ comfortable, confident, smug, telling story after story after story after godd~mn story about his father!
(he listens for some time.)
and they were good
they were so… good
look at him
(thomas examines this memory of alvin more closely.)
i didn’t see that tear on his coat
i didn’t see the way that his hands were shaking
the way the words got caught in his throat
the way he’d fixed his hair
i didn’t see the way the platform made him look so tall
no, i didn’t see alvin at all
i didn’t see that i was the fraud
or notice it was al who was born the artist
i took the bows while he would applaud
i hardly saw him there
turns out it was alvin who inspired me every day
but i didn’t see alvin that way
yes, he was always there
offering so much
he was constant and dependable like stone
i didn’t stop to see what else i’d lost
when we gradually lost touch
but look up from your page, tom!
look up from your page
you’re alone
i didn’t see…
(alvin steps out of the past and observes him.)
i didn’t see the end of the road
i’d set my vision firmly towards the future
burying the debt that i owed
to alvin and my past
i didn’t see the sand slip through my fingers way back then
and i didn’t see alvin
again
(silence.)
[alvin]
“the end”. a story about alvin kelby
[thomas]
i’m done with stories, al
[alvin]
have you finished my eulogy?
[thomas]
no
[alvin]
then you’re not done
(thomas begins to tidy up the papers that are strewn about the sp~ce.)
“the end”, a story about alvin kelby. that’s the one you’re looking for, right?
how did a kid who once thought a b~tterfly could melt the polar ice caps end up in a frozen river on christmas eve ~ and more importantly, what did it have to do with you?
(pause)
you’ll never know, tom
you’ll never know
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