A Looping Distress Signal

Keep playing. Keep playing
Regardless what noise you're making
Keep banging, keep banging
Pummel that piano until it croaks
The constant song
A tap dance in morse code

Keep writing. Keep writing
Even if inside you're dying
Keep trying, keep trying
So music's outstretched arms
Have fallen short
The constant song
A symphony in semaphore

Keep singing. Keep singing
I'm certain somebody's listening
Keep dancing, keep dancing
And yes, they do shoot horses
When they're maimed - but you're just sprained
I thought we hoped to die
Before we got old

The constant song
A looping distress signal