The Sundays – Here's Where The Story Ends

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People I know places I go
Make me feel tongue tied
I can see how people look down
They're on the inside

Here's where the story ends

People I see, weary of me
Showing my good side
I can see how people look down
I'm on the outside

Here's where the story ends
Ooh here's where the story ends

It's that little souvenir of a terrible year
Which makes my eyes feel sore
Oh I never should have said the books that you read
Were all I loved you for
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year
Which makes me wonder why
& it's the memories of the shed that make me turn red
Surprise surprise surprise

Crazy I know, places I go
Make me feel so tired
I can see how people look down
I'm on the outside

Oh here's where the story ends
Ooh here's where the story ends

It's that little souvenir of a terrible year
Which makes my eyes feel sore
& who ever would've thought the books that you brought
Were all I loved you
For
Oh the devil in me said go down to the shed
I know where I belong
But the only thing I ever really wanted to say
Was wrong, was wrong, was wrong

It's that little souvenir of a colorful year
Which makes me smile inside
So I cynically, cynically say the world is that way
Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise

Here's where the story ends
Ooh here's where the story ends

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"Here's Where the Story Ends" as written by H. Wheeler D. Gavurin

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    Song Meaning:OK, This is the real meaning.

    I know because she was my 15 year old girlfriend who liked me for a couple months. We used to be childhood playmates till we decided to go to the shed and look at my dads PLAYBOY mags and read the forum from age 14 to 15 . Suddenly that was the only time she would hang out with me, reading and looking at dirty mags in the shed. Then like 2 robots we did it, in the shed. She got pregnant walked around the hood (with her little souvenir) showing her pregnancy(smile inside was the babies not hers). People were weary of her good side and looked down on her, understandably so because she never had a baby. We still went to the shed and alls she wanted to say was (wrong and where the story ended) that she's going to terminate her pregnancy. I thought we were going to have a baby, together. She told me no way, the ONLY reason she liked me was for the magazines. end of story. End of baby and its smile inside her. Now read the lyrics and think about it.
    Flag stpgarcia2on March 08, 2013   Link
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    Song Meaning:I'm afraid I seem to vaguely remember an interview from the time where she said it was about an abusive relationship (maybe with someone older?) thus the shame the victim feels and the surprise in the shed.

    Now it reminds me of The Reader (Der Vorleser).
    Flag joannajoyon April 01, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I never wrote a lot into the first verses. She's describing walking down the street, everyone looking down, inside their own thoughts. And then people are weary of her being cheerful, they look at her and away, she's not part of their world. There is alienation there, but I think more from an inability to share her story with strangers and being in the crowd gradually wears her good mood away.

    I'd say today I clearly think the little souvenir is a book of some sort. It makes the most sense with the title as well. Here's where the story of her fling ends. Here's where the book she has as her last memento ends.

    However, in the past I've spiraled through a couple different meanings for the song. Admittedly some because I have a devil of a time understanding the enunciation of some of her words. At times I've thought the "little souvenir" was a child she had out of wedlock. And at times I've though the "shed" was first a place where she fooled around with a boy, second a place where she was taken for punishment by her father. Like maybe she had a fling in the shed, got pregnant, and was punished, and now is stuck with a baby.



    Flag fletc3heron August 25, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:I think this song isn't about a particularly serious relationship, but rather something the character viewed as more of a fling. I understand the shed to be a brief sexual encounter. I think the souvenir in question is an actual book. The souvenir makes her eyes sore, not from crying, but perhaps in a more literal sense of looking at it too long, thinking about what happened. She loved the guy this song is about, not in a literal sense, but in a she was interested in him sense. After all it was only for his books, so it couldn't have been real love. She liked him because of his taste in books, but all she really wanted in the end was the brief sexual encounter. He must have thought there was more to it, and was heart broken when he realized it wasn't. The shame the character feels is from everyone hearing from that guy what she did to him, and her probably feeling somewhat guilty about it. She has "a reputation" now. By the song's end however, she's over it and doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks. She's ready to put the experience behind her and move on. She had sex with a guy she didn't really care about. So what.
    Flag songmeanings2011on July 06, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:It reminds me of a brief relationship I had when I was 18. I think she dated this boy who she thought was more witty and social than her and all the people around them, like his friends maybe, as well. She's thinks down on herself...she's "on the outside" and she can't find the right things to say...everything she "wanted to say was wrong". She was smart and loved that he was smart, but felt like she wasn't smart enough for him. But when they were alone..."down in the shed"...he liked her just fine and she gave in and was with him and they connected. But they never could connect outside that shed and after a "terrible year" of trying to connect and fit in with him and his friends, she gave up and the story ended.
    Flag lamimaon June 24, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I think that the narrator is on the outside because people consider her a terrible person even though she tries to show her good side. They probably know she told her ex that she only loved him for the books he gave her. They look at her with disgust and she feels bad about the whole thing. I don't think the little souvenir is a baby but one of the books. It reminds her of the thing she said.
    Flag ClymClemClamon March 16, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Maybe the little souvenir is a baby she had without being married? That may be why people are looking down on her. Otherwise I have no idea why people whould be looking down on her and why she would be on the outside... Those lines throw me a curve...
    Flag chuckeon November 13, 2010   Link
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    Memory:The song by Tin Tin Out sung by Shelly Nelson came out after I had gone through a divorce. After 10 years of marriage - here is where the story ends. I prefer this version to the Sundays version. From when I realized the marriage was over to when we finally went our separate ways took a year. At one point during that turmoil of pain and realization it was over, I had a thought I had first fallen in love with her because of her record collection. After that year after trying so long to make it work, I had a feeling of freedom and I smiled inside a lot. I was at that point. I had come to this moment in time. Through all the good times and the bad times - here's where the story ends. I listened to this song a lot at the time and I still can't help feeling the same feelings even now when I hear this song.
    Flag trubador09on October 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It's a great song and record. She's an excellent singer. I know Harriet Wheeler's friend Tara Kooperman. As a New York songwriter for 18 years ('80's-'90's) who's also the same age as Harriet, I can tell you how these things are made. She probably had the title and then made a poem. The "little souvenir" represents a child, but most likely is also a book, since during the break-up fight in the storyline, she tells him that all she really loved was that he was cultured and he probably gave her the book as a first present. In "the shed", she likely gave him unconventional sex many times. (plural: "memories"). The character's now more mature and blushes at how much she desired him.
    It's a sad, yet pretty tune from 20 years ago! Thanks for keeping it alive. (Chappell sure forgot they have it in their catalog.) Great arrangement by her (now) husband and his melody is obviously coaxed by her vocal range and musical ideas.
    Flag Gerardcanta1on August 31, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I really love this song but when I make someone listen to it they look at me weird.
    Flag Musicmutton August 12, 2010   Link

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