Song Description

A mother vows not to perpetuate the mistakes her mother made.

Lyrics

This Ends With Me

Words & Music by Steve & Sue McConnell



She said, ?That room was full of applause.
My little girl was beaming as she took her bow.
But I was silent on that forever car ride home,
knowing what she needs to hear but my lips won?t make the sound.
I just sat there saying nothing, trapped inside the pain,
that I?ve felt since I was her age
when my mother did the same.?

She said, ?This ends right now ? this ends today.
I will not have my children grow up the same way I did.
The love I have for them, they will hear and feel and see.
This ends right now.
This ends with me.?

She said, ?He finally found the nerve to ask that girl.
He would not repeat her answer but it showed.
I really ached for him, and would have loved to reassure,
but I held back the words and the way to let him know.
Instead I sat there doing nothing ? lengthening the chains,
that my mother?s mothers forged for us and I?ll never wear again.? (chorus)

(Bridge)
She said, ?Just because it was like that for me,
doesn?t mean that it?s the way it always must be.
I hated the echo of words left unsaid
that leave their hollow sounds inside my head.
And I don?t think that I can call
love unexpressed ? a love at all...? (chorus)










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