When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done

When the day is done

Hope so much your race will be all run

Then you find you jumped the gun

Have to go back where you began

When the day is done

When the night is cold

Some get by but some get old

Just to show life's not made of gold

When the night is cold

When the bird has flown

Got no-one to call your own

Got no place to call your home

When the bird has flown

When the game's been fought

Newspapers blow across the court

Lost matches sooner than you would have thought

Now the game's been fought

When the part is through

Seems so very sad for you

Didn't do the things you meant to do

Now there's no time to start anew

Now the part is through

When the day is done

Down to earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done