I Can't Say It Any Better

Though I don't remember the first time I heard Skeeter sing this song, I do remember just about wearing out my sister's (Mary again) LP with this song on it when I was a preteen.

To me it was the perfect song for expressing the emotional upheaval of lost love.  Every teen knows a lot about lost love, real or imagined.  It is a song that I've played endlessly when young romances went sour, and sang softly to myself when my high school swetheart was killed in a car crash when I was seventeen.  But when my husband of thrity-three years died suddenly of a massive heart attack the words really hit home.  "Don't they know it's the end of the world."  It was the way I felt inside while facing the reality around me.  "Why does the sun going on shining?"

I went on, but inside I was crying out that it was so unfair for the world not to stop with me and mourn.  During that time a friend convinced me to try something I'd never done before--sing karoake with her.  We did several of The Judds songs along with some old rock and roll ones we both knew.  One night we decided to try End of the World, but my friend left before it was our turn.  The gal directing the karoake was also a friend of ours and when I told her Pam was gone so I couldn't do it she convinced me to do it alone with her help.  Halfway through the song she shut off her mike and I was on my own.  It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad.  The best thing though is that it was a real release of all my pent-up emotions and I was finally ready to move on with my life as well.  "Life goes on from day to day."