give to me silence yet give to me solitude what you can never give me is a simple truth what you can give to me is a simple lie sing a lullaby for a shadowy girl sing a lullaby for an autumn breeze a menacing quietness fills an empty shadow a fiddler of a tune of sweet melancholy it's the need of the line yet it begins with you it begins with two it begins with an autumn breeze give me silence yet give to me solitude and play to me a sad piano tune so dim from a homeless violin silence is the sweetness of melancholy give to me silence yet give to me solitude I'm wrestling with my shadow what you can never give to me is a simple truth what you can give to me is a simple lie