For Real Toads: using a breakup song

The remarkable Isadora Gruye has posed us a real poser for today's challenge at the online writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads. We're to use (some of) the lyrics from a favorite "breakup song" and write them into a new poem that isn't about breaking up.
I was raised in what was then a small city in an agricultural area of beautiful British Columbia. Our local radio station, CKOV (Sherry will remember this) played a mixture of country music and popular music in the 50s and 60s.
I first heard this song by the man who originated it, Hank Williams, Senior.

Johnny Cash recorded a heartfelt version of it, too, but for all-time, real-true, sad-blue, missing-you music, Elvis did it best in Hawaii: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7iasdKi5-8

  

It could not have been an easy song into which to introduce some real musicality, but I'd say BJ Thomas managed to do that, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9eLLg_6uE

But I'm to write a poem using some of the lyric from it, so, in the wake of Venus crossing the sun, I chose what has always been my favorite line from this song.

The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky,

and scientists, forever since, have stopped to wonder why.

They’ve studied long, they’ve studied hard,

Richard Schear photo

and scratched their heads in wonder:

Does a star, when falling, make no noise?

Or does it sound like thunder?

  

In the video of the rehearsal for his world-broadcast Hawaii show, Elvis said I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry is the saddest song he ever heard, and I don't doubt he heard a lot of songs in his lifetime. 

However, my very favorite sad song is this old Scottish love song recorded by the wonderful Paul Robeson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfpyPy2Cc8