From the recording Blue Ridge Mountain Time: Songs from Wildacres
(2025): prompt: say yes to one note (an Alison Weiner instruction). Pete Pawsey recorded this. He asked if he might play around with it and came up with an entirely imaginative version which is included in the list of Individual Songs.
Lyrics
The end is the beginning – the beginning of the end
Walking in a straight line may take you round a bend
When you give your “yes” to one thing, you say “no” to something else
Any kind of choice – says something ‘bout yourself
There’s many in the one and one can stand for all
Falling to your knees may help you rise up straight and tall
Forgiving what has happened cleans the slate for what’s to come
Leaving what behind you may just help you to come home
Freedoms for and freedoms from is freedom that’s set free
It comes with do’s and don’ts and clear-eyed honesty
Freedom’s seldom given – freedom’s never free
A costly aspiration, a responsibility
There’s a sound that sounds like silence – It’s the breathing of the wind
It can take you from the middle and bring you to the end
The end is the beginning, the beginning of the end
The end is the beginning as we begin again / The end is the beginning as we begin again