AT THE END OF THE SONG
(John Bettis / Richard Carpenter)


The Carpenters - 1983


They tell me
Somewhere this life isn't crazy
But I've traveled the world far and wide
And I say they're wrong

And don't sell me
Stories that music's a lady
It's not when the singer's alone
At the end of a song

At the end of the song, there's no one
After the last note is played
Only the memory stays
Then even that fades away

And there is nothing so hard
As convincing your heart
That you should start singing again

You told me
Nothing could change perfect lovers
But like every promise you made
It broke before long

It's lonely
Falling away from each other
But we've come to the last of our words
And the end of our song

At the end of the song, there's no one
After the last note is played
Only the memory stays
Then even that fades away

And there is nothing so hard
As convincing your heart
That you should start singing again

That you should start singing again



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2016)