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