Martha Collins - The Story We Know lyrics

The way to begin is always the same. Hello, Hello. Your hand, your name. So glad, just fine, and Good bye at the end. That's every story we know, and why pretend? But lunch tomorrow? No? Yes? An omelette, salad, chilled white wine? The way to begin is simple, sane, Hello, and then it's Sunday, coffee, the Times, a slow day by the fire, dinner at eight or nine and Good bye. In the end, this is a story we know so well we don't turn the page, or look below the picture, or follow the words to the next line: The way to begin is always the same Hello. But one night, through the latticed window, snow begins to whiten the air, and the tall white pine. Good bye is the end of every story we know that night, and when we dose the curtains, oh, we hold each other against that cold white sign of the way we all begin and end. Hello, Good bye is the only story. We know, we know.