Grant Tilly: Music
Bitter Song #3, The End of the Day
(Grant Tilly)
2003-05-12
Music and Lyrics by Grant Tilly, produced by Konrad Pluta
From BEFORE MY EYES
The culmination of a Bitter trilogy of songs, a song about once I had a chance to step back from everything and figure things out. I'm over it now... really, I am.
What can you say
When the Smoke has all cleared
When our promises made
Have all melted away?
What can you do
When we look at ourselves
And the tattered remains
Of that love that we made
Just don’t turn away…
Tell me there’s more to living this life
Then loving and turning away
Won’t you just give me something
So I can get by
And tell me, c’mon tell me
Tell me that you’ll still be there at the end of the day…
Where did you go
When I needed you most
When I reached out for you
You were so far away
You were lost in yourself
As I scrambled to find
Some trace left behind
Of that love that we made
When you turned away
Now I believe all the stories I’ve read
Of lovers who just turned away
And this heart won’t be mended
With needle and thread
If you’d tell me, c’mon tell me
Tell me that you’ll still be there at the end of the day
I used to think endings could still be beginnings
And no matter what there would always be a time for forgiving
But these dirty wounds they don’t heal quite the same
And when I hear thunder I walk in the rain
Just hoping that somehow I’ll wash out your memory
Your stain
The tables have turned
You look for the best
I find only the worst
Of that love that we made
The times that we had
Won’t outweigh the regret
Or the innocence lost
The price that was paid
When you turned away
Now I believe all the stories I’ve read
Of lovers who just turned away
And this heart won’t be mended
With needle and thread
If you’d tell me, c’mon tell me
Tell me that you’ll still be there…
Cuz I would have been there for you at the end of the day