Musical note lingers

A pause as the last note lingers
A song ending about unhappy endings
Image if those ending were somehow happy
And this song was a happy song instead of the sad one
It turned out to be
All those people just being real
Going through the motions of what they could be



The last note of a sad song lingers
A song about happy ending it was never meant to be
All the laughter in a room full of empty lonely people
Is still a room full a laughing people
Even if the laughter distracts them for a song
This song could be happy
If it were meant to be
One about happy ending for once



A pause as the last note lingers
As a cord on the guitar is strum
The voice has already faded
It could have been something else
If you wanted
Her last words I love you
As I turned needing to fade
Because all the trust has gone out of me



A pause in a song of sad ending
Lingers in the air
The silence bridging emptiness
Image if all those unhappy ending
Were something more
With rooms full of joyous people
And their laughter was more than real
Not about scar tissue and broken hearts



A pause in a song about happy ending
Somehow turns the air brittle
As a cord on a guitar is strum
The voice long ago faded
A song about all the happy people
Like a room full of drunk people
With entrance doors and no exits
All those people going through the motions
Of what they thought was real