This Day Will End (A Song)
I wrote the lyrics and creative concept for this song. Suno AI was used to help bring the music and vocals to life.
It feels like school only let out yesterday,
now August is leaning toward September.
The tinsel shining in your hair
takes me somewhere I remember.
I’m five years old on a balcony,
Disney fireworks in the sky,
colours falling over everything,
back when forever felt like mine.
I was a little girl once,
with my whole life still to live through.
Now I watch you climb the tallest trees
and see myself in you.
This day will end,
this summer will too.
The years will keep on moving
no matter what we do.
I cannot hold time,
I can only be inside it.
So I don’t want to miss my life
because I’m too afraid and hiding.
If everything I love
will someday be a memory,
I want to know I was really there
while it was happening.
I lived at home with my family,
my best friends just down the street.
Close enough to make a whole life
out of ordinary weeks.
Now some of them are far away,
and somehow I became
a woman living on an island
With my own family
Now I look at history in picture frames.
You climb the trees as high as I once did,
Chloe saying, “Look how high I am.”
And I see myself up in those branches,
with a book tight in my hands.
For a second, we are both there,
two childhoods in the trees.
You becoming who you’re going to be,
me remembering who I used to be.
This day will end,
this summer will too.
The years will keep on moving
no matter what we do.
I cannot hold time,
I can only be inside it.
So I don’t want to miss my life
because I’m too afraid and hiding.
If everything I love
will someday be a memory,
I want to know I was really there
while it was happening.
A phone call is just a phone call.
Laughter is just a sound.
Until you learn how precious
the ordinary is right now.
And my mind rehearses disasters
like worrying could keep it away.
But the things I fear will never come.
Time will anyway.
The years go by
The landscape changes
The memories held on to through the new pages of our lives.
I will be there
while it is happening.
