Everything Ends

[billroper]

Here's the song that I wrote for Brenda -- and anyone else who needed it! -- for my concert at the last Chambanacon. I'm glad that Brenda (and Bill and others!) liked it. And it was a lot of fun to perform it (and the rest of the concert as well) with Amy McNally, who is always a delight to work with. Actually, "work" is the wrong word, but it sounds wrong to say that Amy is always a delight to *fun* with. :)

Anyway, lyrics! I should post lyrics. And for those of you who haven't heard this yet, by virtue of not being at the con, it's upbeat and starts off with an Amaj7 chord...

Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2023

Everything Ends

We’ve been down so many roads
With friends to lighten up our loads.
We’ve been so many places
And we’ve seen so many things.
Sunrise, sunset, nights between,
Friendships that were evergreen,
Kicking up the traces
Where everybody sings.

(Chorus)
Everything ends someday.
Everything ends and that’s ok.
Playing all the games that we wanted to play
And we had fun along the way.
Even though we might want to stay,
We know we’re gonna be ok,
‘Cause everything ends – someday.


Counting days and counting years,
Counting joys and counting fears.
Memories stacked higher
Than the mountains we recall.
I know you and you know me
In ways that no one else can see.
Toss a log upon the fire
And watch sparks fly and fall.

(Bridge)
The more time flies, the more things change,
The more we have to rearrange.
You know that wisdom comes with age.
It’s time to turn another page.


And so it’s time when one thing ends,
A place we met so many friends,
Made memories together
With laughter and with tears,
And a melody we still recall,
Laughing, skipping down the hall.
A pleasant sort of tether
To bind us cross the years.

(Chorus twice)

Everything ends – someday.
Yeah, everything ends – someday.