## Metadata
**Caption:** folk rock, acoustic ballad, somber lyrics, fragile vocal, melancholic, male vocal
**BPM:** 40
**Duration:** 183.0s
**Key:** F major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
I watched a friend of mine fall slow into the dark
Every year a little dimmer than the spark
He used to play the sweetest melody I'd known
Now his hands just shake and tremble on their own

[chorus]
I've seen the needle leave its mark on more than one
I've seen a hundred years of music come undone
Every gifted soul that gets it in their vein
Trades away tomorrow for a moment of no pain

[verse]
They said he had a talent that could light a room
Now he's just a shadow fading in the gloom
I keep his old guitar up on my wall
A quiet way to say I saw it all

[chorus]
I've seen the needle leave its mark on more than one
I've seen a hundred years of music come undone
Every gifted soul that gets it in their vein
Trades away tomorrow for a moment of no pain

[bridge]
If I could trade this song to bring him back
I'd burn every record, every track
But all I've got's a warning in this tune
Sung a little too late, and a little too soon

[chorus]
I've seen the needle leave its mark on more than one
I've seen a hundred years of music come undone
Every gifted soul that gets it in their vein
Trades away tomorrow for a moment of no pain