The Place Where Failure Goes - Rupert Holmes

After they laid me in the ground

I flew on the wing

Somewhere outside the pearly gates

I heard someone sing

It was a girl I’d seen before

Though we’d never met

I asked her name, she said, «It's yours

How could you forget?»

«I was a girl who appeared in a song

That you wrote when you turned seventeen

I was a failure when I was a single

I died, but you still loved me»

«And this is the place where failure goes

If your dreams won’t die

This is where all your hopes survive

If they’re not a lie

This is where all the might-have-beens

Triumph and forgive

This is where all the star-crossed loves

Have the chance to live»

I turned around and I saw every dreamer

Who gambled it all on the line

Every belief that once ended in grief

Now was blazing alongside mine

And I’m in the place where failure goes

Here for quite some while

Here where the games of win or lose

Only make us smile

This is my voice beyond the grave

Preaching from the past

Heaven and hell are myths of men

Dreams are all that last