Goodbye Fellow Traveler Lyrics

We spent our days on vain attempts

To try and outrun time

As if our work could carry on

When our lives are left behind

But trying's not enough

Unless the dice are on your side

But who of us can say

What fate is carried in the tide

There is no parade for artists

When they die alone and poor

You gave what you could

But they took all you had

And cried more, more

Give us more

There was no headline

When they found you on the floor

You never got your love or fame

It wasn't what your journey had in store

What was it for

There's no parade for martyrs

Who die without a cause

'Cause that's not what it means

And no one knows where your heart was

Where your heart was

So goodbye fellow traveler

Upon this grain of sand

I carved you out this place in song

I hope you'd understand

Some of us remember

In that way you may live on

And though we'll never meet again

For now we share this song

There's no parade for artists

When they die alone and poor

You gave what you could

But they took all you had

And cried more, more

Give us more

Give us more

Give us more