up on the shelf þarký sözü

i used to play the trumpet once but now i play guitar
somebody told you it´s more mellow.
well i´ve played a lot of music since but i really haven´t grown that far
somebody said that you´re just yellow.

so i keep it up on the shelf
and it´s funny how you keep it all to yourself
hey honey, could there ever be,
should there ever be,
could there ever be something else?

you know i used to swing my silver sword, the dragons hit the ground
whatever happened to the maidens?
well i´d swing my silver sword again and they would all fall down
would you leave them lying there where you had laid them?

and i used to have a country once, where it´s gone i do not know.
where do you think you might have lost it?
i used to raise the flag at dawn, but that was very long ago
maybe you can find it where you tossed it.

well i tossed it up on the shelf
and it´s funny how you´ve kept it all for yourself
hey honey, could there ever be,
should there ever be,
could there ever be something else?

i used to say my prayers boys, i used to sing the hymns
even the echo´s disappearing.
they´ve broken the stained windows, the cathedral´s getting dim.
then what is this dirge that we are hearing?

well it comes from up on the shelf
and it´s funny how you sing it only for yourself
hey honey, could there ever be,
should there ever be,
could there ever be something else?

well, i used to have a lover once, i used to have a friend
how in the hell you ever find one?
my song is almost over now, my story´s at an end
you lived yourself a good life but a blind one.

well i´ve hidden there up on the shelf
and it´s funny how you´ve kept it all for yourself
hey honey, could there ever be,
should there ever be,
could there ever be something else?