[00:00.00]Studio Musician (Live at the Uris Theatre, New York, NY, 1977) - Barry Manilow
[00:17.73]I am a studio musician
[00:22.74]We've never met
[00:26.61]But you know me well
[00:30.57]I am the English horn
[00:34.09]Who plays the poignant counter line
[00:38.32]Upon the song you heard
[00:41.38]While making love in some hotel
[00:46.93]I am a part of you
[00:51.83]I've never tried for fame
[00:56.01]You'll never know my name
[01:02.00]I am the strings that enter softly
[01:07.62]Or three guitars
[01:11.79]That glitter gold
[01:15.66]I am the thousand trumpet lines
[01:20.47]That were an afterthought
[01:23.03]Intended as a way
[01:26.59]To get a dying record sold
[01:32.20]I never ride the road
[01:37.20]I never play around
[01:41.38]I play what they set down
[01:46.13]I'm a working musician
[01:50.06]Living from week to week
[01:54.05]I'm the voice through which empty men try to speak
[02:02.16]A studio musician
[02:06.64]Blowin' the chance I seek
[02:26.94]And when the woodwind cushion rises
[02:32.24]I start to dream
[02:36.24]On a low brass bed
[02:40.42]But I awake to horns
[02:45.16]The drummer calls to me
[02:49.28]We're up to letter D
[02:53.77]I'm a man of the moment
[02:57.39]Pop is my stock and trade Singles jingles and demos
[03:04.47]Conveniently made
[03:08.89]A studio musician
[03:13.06]Whose music will die unplayed
[03:24.98]A studio musician
[03:29.89]Whose music could have died unplayed