There was a pool table there at the wedding   That most of the men stood and played   Whilst the women danced in their melancholy   Till the last song started to fade      And as D.J. turned the lights up   And packed his records away   He noticed a lonely figure still there   So quietly turned to say      Tears you thought lasted a lifetime   Won't last too much more than a day   And you'll prove that you still have your strength left   When you wipe those tears away, well away      Roses in garden bring joy to the bleak   Lilies save wretched from worse   Music lifts up those too weary to speak   So, sister you sing the next verse      The path in life that you have taken   I can figure out just from your frown   Either it's down the up escalator   Or maybe sometimes up the down      And you may not feel that you have traveled   But sure as hell been across town   And certainly if story unraveled   You've lost more than you've ever found      One thing's for certain you've traveled   And a not too dissimilar route   Those ups and downs and rounds after rounds   You're wearing them just like a suit, like a suit      So if roses in garden bring joy to the bleak   Lilies save wretched from worse   Music lifts up those too weary to speak   Then D.J. I'll take the next verse      So sister judge strength not by muscle   Or weight that your body can lift   But by heavyweight heart that you carry   That no other young woman could shift      Hey, Mr. D.J. a special request   Play that last record for me   And make it as long and as painfully sad   As any slow ballad could be   As any slow ballad could be