The reading is lonely tonight All the neighbors know your life When you walk around the house You call a name and no one answers We know it's too late And even so you drew a cage With the colored pencils That you found in the basement Fifty years ago in that blue house You rang the bell of that blue house You imagine flowers in the garden And spend your day watering them When there's a choir in the town You remember all those days Fifty years ago in that blue house You rang the bell of that blue house