Story Behind The Song
I was watching a show about men who were losing there jobs after putting in 30+ years and the hardships that go along with the feelings of inadequacy.
Song Description
Dealing with job loss.
| Song Length |
3:53 |
Genre |
Rock - Easy Listening |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Heartbreaking |
Subject |
Loneliness, Dysfunctional Relations |
| Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
End of the Road *
We bought a house on Cobalt street where the willows they hang down Mary got a job at the I.D.A in the middle of the town theres a school at the end of the road where our little ones will go I'll see them at the end of my day when that quitting whistle bell blows
And then the word got out that their closing down the mill now they got chains on the gates and the big black stacks are still the smoke stopped rising high into the blue northern sky and money dried up like rain on black in the middle of July and all I can
see is the end of the road
At night I'm dreaming I'm back at work and I'm digging in the stones I curse the rock and I break the earth till it's just blood and bone Mary say's she's leaving as she's packing up our kids she's going to move in with her folks for awile she don't want them to see me like this and all I can see is the end of the road
Now when I see my kids there in frames on the wall but everynight before they sleep I'll get a call Mary say's she's met someone and it's time she moved on I know of stories with happy endings but not this one and all I can see is the end of the road