Orpheus is playing the troubadour

Singing his heartbreak songs

The ones about Eurydice

The crowd cringes and yawns

He`s cut off all his guitar strings

So he`s standing up there alone

Silence where there was once music

While he sings into the microphone

It`s so hard being so close

But still just out of reach

To something in the darkness

That the light won`t let me keep

She vanished sometime in the spring

Most people thought she was dead

Others say that they saw her

Leaving on a midnight jet

Now Orpheus acts like he`s holy

Like grief has given him wings

Searching the globe looking for her

Tears in his eyes while he sings

It`s so hard being so close

But still just out of reach

To something in the darkness

That the light won`t let me keep

He found her one day in Morocco

Living breathing and well

Out there writing a novel

A memoir called my life in hell

He begged her to follow him home

Saying I`ve come here to save you

She told him to go back alone

Saying baby it`s over I`m through

The night that I left I found you in bed

With my old roommate Jane

You were under the covers giving her head

So I walked out and boarded a plane

It`s so hard being so close

But still just out of reach

To something in the darkness

That the light won`t let me keep