(c)2005 Kvinnesongs (BMI) * words: Michelle Carr & Robert Kvinnesland * music: Robert Kvinnesland
Lyrics
No Happily Ever After (After The End)
(c)2005 Kvinnesongs (BMI)
Music: Robert Kvinnesland
Words: Michelle Carr & Robert Kvinnesland
[verse 1]
I'm curled up beside my little girl
As she opens her favorite book...
She tries so hard to read the pretty pages,
But mostly... she just looks.
Oh, then the joy in her eyes
For what she recognizes,
And says it out loud again:
"They lived happily ever after...
The End".
[verse 2]
I hug my darlin' close to me now,
Wonderin' how I'm gonna say:
It's nice to think of love as magical,
But sometimes... it just fades.
And then the story to tell
Doesn't turn out so well,
Filled with teardrops and hearts on the mend,
Where there's no "happily ever after",
Only "The End".
[bridge]
A final chapter, the turn of a page...
Happy endings are for another day...
But even when things don't work out,
Precious joys could still have come about.
So lay on down and close your eyes...
In the darkness new dreams will arise...
Don't stop wishing on a star,
And don't go losin' your Cinderella heart.
[verse 3]
Storybook scenes color children's dreams,
It's the world that we want them to know...
We try so hard to keep things sweet and simple,
But mostly... it ain't so.
And, oh, that look in their eyes
When they first realize that
The stories were only pretend,
And there's no "happily ever after",
After the end.
[tag]
No, there's no "happily ever after"...
So quickly forgotten, the joy and laughter,
No "happily ever after",
After the end.
Contact:
Robert Kvinnesland
kaylandr@yahoo.com
