The song Old Violin is performed by Johnny Paycheck in the album named Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck in the year 2002 .
Well, I can't recall, one time in my life,
I've felt as lonely as I do tonight.
I feel like I could lay down, and get up no more,
It's the damndest feelin'; I never felt it before.
Tonight I feel like an old violin,
Soon to be put away and never played again.
Don't ask me why I feel like this, hell, I can't say.
I only wish this feelin' would just go away.
I guess it's 'cos the truth,
Is the hardest thing I ever faced.
'Cos you can't change the truth,
In the slightest way. I tried.
So I asked myself,
I said: 'John, where'd you go from here?'
Then like a damned fool,
I turned around and looked in the mirror.
And there I saw, an old violin.
Soon to be put away and never played again.
So one more time, just to be sure,
I said: 'John, where in the hell do you go from here?'
You know that when a nickel's worth of difference,
And I looked in the mirror, that's when I knew.
That there I was seein', an old violin.
Soon to be put away, and never played again.
And just like that, it hit me,
That old violin and I were just alike.
We'd give our all to music,
And soon, we'd give our life.
Johnny Paycheck - Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck
- Take This Job And Shove It
- 11 Months and 29 Days
- I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)
- Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets
- She's All I Got
- Ragged Old Truck
- Colorado Cool Aid
- Fifteen Beers
- I've Seen Better Days
- Someone to Give My Love To
- My Part of Forever
- Yesterday's News Just Hit Home Today
- (Stay Away from) The Cocaine Train (live)
- Me And The I.R.S. (live)
- The Feminine Touch
- You Better Move On (duet with George Jones)
- I Did The Right Thing
- When I Had a Home to Go Home To
- Barstool Mountain
- I Can See Me Lovin' You Again
- Old Violin
- All Night Lady
- The Outlaw's Prayer