Songwriter: Rupert Holmes
Producer: Jeffrey Lesser
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
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
more tracks from the album
Songs That Sound Like Movies: The Complete Epic Recordings
- I Don’t Want to Hold Your Hand
- Rifles and Rum
- Studio Musician
- The Man Behind the Woman
- The Place Where Failure Goes
- Who, What, When, Where, Why
- I Don’t Want to Get Over You
- You Make Me Real
- Aw Shucks
- The Last of the Romantics
- For Beginners Only
- Philly
- Queen Bee
- Love Out of Time
- Lullaby for Myself
- Magic Trick
- Deco Lady
- You Burned Yourself Out
- Too Scared to Sing
- Singles
- Widescreen
- Touch and Go
- Terminal
- Weekend Lover
- Bagdad
- Annabella
- Soap Opera
- Brass Knuckles
- Our National Pastime
- Everything Gets Better When You’re Drunk
- Second Saxophone
- Phantom of the Opera
- Letters That Cross in the Mail
- Talk
- The One of Us (Demo for A Star Is Born)
From the albums
Rupert Holmes popular songs
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
- Terminal
- Nearsighted
- The Mask
- Loved by the One You Love
- Blackjack
- Adventure
- The People That You Never Get to Love
- In You I Trust
- Weekend Lover
- Bagdad
- The O’Brien Girl
- Him (single edit)
- Annabella
- Special Thanks
- Cold
- Soap Opera
- Let’s Get Crazy Tonight
- Him
- Less Is More
- Drop It
- I Don’t Want to Hold Your Hand
- Perfect
- Crowd Pleaser