Start With The Ending

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 doubts.



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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 noone has to win.

Start with the ending,

It's the best way to begin.



After you've 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.



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It's the best way,

The best way to begin



Happy anniversary darlin',

We go back a long, long time.

I think about our lives together,

So grateful that you're here in mine.

And I know you'll keep on changing

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

Start with the ending,

Things will never be the same.

But now there's no defending,

So that noone has to win.

Start with the ending,

It's the best way to begin.



It's the best way,

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,

Noone has to win.

Start with the ending,

It's the best way to begin.



It's the best way to begin



Now there's no defending,

Noone has to win.

Start with the ending,

It's the best way, (start fade)

It's the best way to begin, begin, begin.

It's the best way to begin.