“Life In Song” #22: Summary Of An Ending – I had had the deepest crush on this girl named Jackie who had several other guys also interested in her…eventually I “got” that it wasn’t gonna happen and this song is about the letting go and coming to terms that the other person was a good person but the romance was not meant to me. Since this song is in a tuning that I haven’t used anywhere else, it kind of slipped away. I remembered the basic melody and mood but I had to recreate the guitar part from scratch. This is the only recording of this song. Once again, this is the underlying purpose of “A Life In Song”, to preserve and share the songs that otherwise would disappear…
I particularly like the image of:
“You used to make me feel like the 4th of July
Like carnivals, parades and rockets
Lately I’ve been feeling like the uncounted change
Forgotten in the depths of your pockets…”
Can you relate?
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Lyrics:
Summary Of An Ending | July 1978 | Song #22
Speaking as if across a room
Of never touching people
What you say is lost between the lines
Hidden behind all kinds of signs
Back in our beginning
We were never really sure
How much of each other
We wanted to explore
I soon thought you were my valentine
But you had other things on your mind
One of them was traveling
The other was lack of time
Refrain:
So I feel like a stranger
With the one I thought I’d known
I’d heard tales of this kind of thing
But this time it hit home…
You used to make me feel like the 4th of July
Like carnivals, parades and rockets
Lately I’ve been feeling like the uncounted change
Forgotten in the depths of your pockets
So I’ll sing the hymns of the asphalt
And I’ll close the book of you
I’ll read the pages of someone else
And she can read my pages too
Refrain:
Well it’s time for this song to be over
And I have no regrets at all
I think I finally realized
We’ve climbed different garden walls
I sincerely wish you the best
With what the future may send
I honestly hope your traveling
Has a happy end
Refrain:
Tuning: EBDGBE
“Summary of an Ending” by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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