Start With the Ending - David Wilcox

Secret of a happy marriage

Maybe you should write this down

You wanna keep a love together

The best way is to end it now

When you both know it’s over

Suddenly the truth comes out

You can talk about your secret passion

You can talk about your restless doubt

When there’s no pretending

Then the truth is safe to say

Start with the ending

Get it out of the way

Now, there’s no defending

Because no one has to win

Start with the ending

It’s the best way to begin

It’s the best way to begin

After you have both decided

You were missing something that you need

The ways that you were too short sighted

Get easier for you to see

After all the expectations

Shatter on the kitchen floor

You just see another human suffering

And wonder what the war was for

When there’s no pretending

Then the truth is safe to say

Start with the ending

Get it out of the way

Now, there’s no defending

Because no one has to win

Start with the ending

It’s the best way to begin

It’s the best way, best way to begin

Happy anniversary, darling

We go back a long, long time

I think about our lives together

So grateful you are here in mine

And I know you’ll keep on changing

You’re moving in this dance with me

I love the way we embrace the future

And keep the past a memory

So, there’s no defending

That the old ways could remain

We start with the ending

And things will never be the same

But now, there’s no defending

So that no one has to win

Start with the ending

It’s the best way to begin

It’s the best way to begin

No defending

The truth is safe to say

Start with the ending

Get it out of the way

No defending

No one has to win

We start with the ending

It’s the best way to begin

It’s the best way to begin

Now, there’s no defending

No one has to win

We start with the ending

It’s the best way, the best way to begin

Begin, begin

It’s the best way to begin