From: “The Witches of Eastwick (Musical)”

Loose Ends
by

DANA P. ROWE

Lyrics by: JOHN DEMPSEY

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 LOOSE ENDS
Words By Music By
JOHN DEMPSEY DANA P ROWE

A2 Sukie:

I nev - er knew my fath - er; He

A 2/F

left so long a - go. I nev - er knew my fath - er but I

B m7 D /E E
3

knew e - nough to know what I was miss - ing. And

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A2

ev - ’ry - thing I felt then, these feel -ings that I knew, ev - ’ry - thing I felt then I

B m7
3

swore I’d work it through an-oth-er morn - ing

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Ev - ’ry prob - lem... all my life... an - oth - er morn - ing...

. I close my

A maj7 D (addG) G
3

eyes, I fade to black, I hide my face, I turn my back and there are these loose ends to deal with,

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loose ends. I clear my throat, I give a smile, act un - con - cerned when all the while they’re haunt-ing me;

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Loose ends to tie up, loose ends. Like but-tons and bows we col - lect them from

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fam-i - ly and friends. Loose ends, an - gel, loose ends. I

A2 A 2/F

put the past be - hind me when it came un - der-foot. I put the past be - hind me, but the

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past would not stay put; so I was learn - ing. I

C 2 A 2

lived my lit - tle dra - mas, with all the world, my stage. And when the plot grew tan - gled, I

B m7
3

saved the fi - nal page for some oth-er morn - ing. But...

Cm B m7 D /E E D /E E

all too quick - ly it ar - rives, that oth - er morn - ing. I close my

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eyes, I fade to black, I hide my face, I turn my back and there are these loose ends to deal with,

E A maj9 B m6/D
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loose ends. I clear my throat, I give a smile, act un - con - cerned when all the while they’re haunt-ing me;

G E Cm7 A m/C

Loose ends to tie up, loose ends. Did you know that you were blessed just hav-ing some-one to call Dad? Did you

A m(maj7) E
E

tell him that you loved him each and ev - ’ry chance you had? I hope you did. I hope you

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did. Be-cause the things you did-n’t do have this way of haunt-ing you.... I

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nev - er knew my fa - ther, but an - gel I knew yours. And what - ev - er’s left be - hind well, you can

Fm7
B m7 5 A 2

bear. You were loved. You were loved. You were

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rall.

loved. No loose ends there.

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