If endings are beginnings

Maybe we should be leaving

If loving you's like dying

Maybe I could stop breathing

We listen, but are we hearing?

And endings are like beginnings.

If the start is just the finish

Then maybe we should keep moving

What things did you accomplish?

Maybe we could stop counting

I write to learn what I'm thinking

And endings seem like beginnings.

Though I dig my heals right in

There ain't a soul not suffering

You pass it on like a baton

And run and run and run and run

Alas the heart, it cannot speak

It holds its tongue between its teeth

I travel across the great divide

From neutral ground to your bedside.

If pain was just a tattoo

Maybe it will stop hurting

I'll say I'll always love you

And hold you all night till morning

I pray that I'm not just dreaming

And endings are, and endings are

And endings are like beginnings.