Long Line of Pain

I'm coming from a long line of pain My family suffered greatly for my gain And I think a lot about How my daddy died So I would not live with it And his heart lives in my song And the melody comes And just as quickly the melody is gone I'm back alone, far from home Now my mamma's all alone I try to call her and see her when I'm home And after all that she's been through Oh the doctor say: "There ain't nothing we can do" And her heart lives in my song And the melody comes And just as quickly the melody is gone I'm back alone, far from home There's a bird outside my window Who takes the song where he goes And leaves it there Like a dead man's rocking chair And tonight I'm feeling lost and Headin' down the highway out to Boston I get the sense I might lose it I thank God tonight for the luck I got in music 'Cause my heart lives in this song But the melody comes And just as quickly, the melody is gone I'm back alone, far from home