What Can a Song Do to You?

Music from an open window

Music, sudden and fleeting

Ordinary music, in an ordinary street

Why does your heart start beating?

What can a song do to you?

Can it waken a memory sleeping?

Can it call back a day, when your heart fled away

Into somebody else's keeping?

What can a song do to you?

Can it bring back a spring in December?

Can it make, with each note, such an ache in your throat

That you find you can still remember?

For the past is a house full of treasure

And there lies, buried deep in the storm

Every smile, every tear, every pleasure

And a song is the key to the door

What can a song do to you?

Can it kindle the flame that was dying

Till it burns once again, with its joy, with its pain

And your heart's of a sudden crying?

Oh, I know, yes, I know, now I see

What a song has done to me