Vance Gilbert
A Room Somewhere
[Verse 1]
Thumbin' through these shoeboxed letters and photographs
Knowing it's too late to cash in these rainchecks on expired passion
So I sit right here
And I bruise myself on souvenirs
Wonderin' if this junk I save
Will follow me to my grave
[Chorus]
Or to a room somewhere
Full of all the things I'd ever lost
All the things that I've forgotten
Every venture misbegotten
That cannot be redeemed
All my broken dreams
And you
[Verse 2]
Thinkin' back on moments I shrugged asidе
All the days I let slip past as if I could flip the hourglass
Thеre's a castle in the air
Fallen into disrepair
An iron will that's gone to rust
Neglected and collecting dust
[Chorus]
In a room somewhere
Full of all the things I'd ever lost
All the things that I've forgotten
Every venture misbegotten
That cannot be redeemed
All my broken dreams
And you
[Mandolin Solo]
[Verse 3]
All the knickknack, bric a brac, and odds and ends
A stopwatch, a spyglass, a jackknife, a backstage pass
My sense of equilibrium
All the arguments I thought I'd won
Are hanging side by side
Near the worn-out coats and alibis
[Chorus]
In a room somewhere
Full of all the things I'd ever lost
All the things that I've forgotten
Every venture misbegotten
That cannot be redeemed
All my broken dreams
And you