Endlessly Working
When I’m 68 / my Funeral will be too late
What’s the point of living / if you can’t keep on giving
Might as well just leave here / only living on in fear
Feel like surrounding / Wolves are howling
CHORUS Endlessly working pushing back and reworking
Can I go on to the end?
Can’t shake the feeling / humbleness and kneeling
Always looking for a friend
V2 [half length] “theres a lot in a look” / When you’re making love
It’s not always inspiration / From above
CHORUS Br II m- V] Endlessly working … pulling out and reworking
Keeping on to the end
It’s a marvellous feeling and it’s everything we’re needing
Little troubles we transcend
Mid 8 Db Eb Ab / Fm Bb Eb / Eb /Db C7 Fm Bb CCC
[Db] punish yourself if you must
First decide who to trust
Get away from the things you don’t want
Take yourself on a jaunt
V Judge a Book by its cover / then you’ll discover
You’ll be helping out with the show
CHORUS x2 Br II m- V] Endlessly working pushing back and reworking
Composition Notes
The lyric is a bit cryptic but is actually about voluntary work which is a strange thing as it sometimes benefits the giver more than the people who are supposed to benefit. Anyway having done many hours of voluntary work in my life I now don't do any. My motto is well you can always say no! It has a nice trivial and playful atmosphere.
Musically this switches feel from straight in the verses with the choruses in a loose swing which is one of my natural feels. The middle 8 has lots of chords but gets home in the end.
Recorded 2019