The End

I used to be the kind that skipped right to the last page
Hoping that "someday" would make it all make sense
See it's easier to run from change than watch it rewrite everything
But for the first time, I think I want to stay

Then, I start to think it's funny
how we think we know what life's about
When most of us have barely lived at all
I know that I am guilty too, and I tried to give up way too soon
All because it seemed my dreams had hit a wall

Just when I think I want it all to stop, and go back to the start
I go and fall in love with being young and falling apart
I'm right where I was meant to be,
but it's starting to slip away from me
So if I close my eyes and just pretend
Maybe it won't feel like the end

Now I take the time to breathe and see how much I've grown
I've loved and lost, and found myself by mistakes that I own
So pour me another shot, bartender, we're drinking to our tears
And make me wish that I could not be anywhere but here

I see things so much clearer now,
and I'm ripping that last chapter out
I'll let this movie play out on it's own
'Cause it looks like things are getting
good, hell I'd stop the whole thing if I could
If it meant I never had to let it go

Just when I think I want it all to stop, and go back to the start
I go and fall in love with being young and falling apart
I'm right where I was meant to be,
but it's starting to slip away from me
So if I close my eyes and just pretend
Maybe it won't feel like the end

Now I thank from New York all the way to New Zealand
For this flicker of hope in my heart that I'm feeling

And I thank even the one who broke my heart
You didn't teach it to beat, but you gave it a start

And I wrote some songs that saved my life
Hoping that it would give you all some peace of mind

That these storms come and go, but these good old days
Are the millions of reasons you'll be glad you stayed

'Cause it's not the end, oh oh oh
'Cause it's not the end
It's not the end