Lyrics

I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE
(Music and Lyric by Louis Rosen)

I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends

Pretty as an actress
She posed like a starlet on the stair
Her bridegroom there beside her
His mustache and hat so debonair
A smile in their eyes
A dream song in the air

Years become a decade
The things you once loved become a chore
You’re tumbling in a riptide
The harder you fight, the farther from shore
An ache in your soul
You pray for something more

Soon the dog won’t bark
And the cat won’t purr
And the silence howls
Between him and her
The dog won’t bark and that angry cat won’t purr
They loathe who they are
Can’t remember who they were

It throbs like a migraine
Cold as a tear in the snow
Resentments and confusion, for-
Getting what you reap is what you sow
When all is said and done,
They’ve got nowhere to go

The busboy cleared the table
The old man nursed his coffee cup
Cigarettes and small talk
“Waiter, please fill this coffee cup”
Then out of the blue he said,
“Son, I’m all used up.”

“Forty years of marriage
So sad, there’s nothing else to say
Only insults and indifference
Press against the dying of the day
We’re too old to change
Too young to waste away”

I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends

I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE
(2013)

I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends

Pretty as an actress
She posed like a starlet on the stair
Her bridegroom there beside her
His mustache and hat so debonair
A smile in their eyes
A dream song in the air

Years become a decade
The things you once loved become a chore
You’re tumbling in a riptide
The harder you fight, the farther from shore
An ache in your soul
You pray for something more

Soon the dog won’t bark
And the cat won’t purr
And the silence howls
Between him and her
The dog won’t bark and that angry cat won’t purr
They loathe who they are
Can’t remember who they were

It throbs like a migraine
Cold as a tear in the snow
Resentments and confusion, for-
Getting what you reap is what you sow
When all is said and done,
They’ve got nowhere to go

The busboy cleared the table
The old man nursed his coffee cup
Cigarettes and small talk
“Waiter, please fill this coffee cup”
Then out of the blue he said,
“Son, I’m all used up.”

“Forty years of marriage
So sad, there’s nothing else to say
Only insults and indifference
Press against the dying of the day
We’re too old to change
Too young to waste away”

I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
I’ve seen this movie
I know how the story ends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends
No one is saved and
No one makes amends

© 2017 by Louis Rosen/Lullwater Music, ASCAP. All rights reserved.