# Disappointing song endings

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770 "2025-01-09T20:18:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770/16 "2025-01-09T21:49:15Z")

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I came here to nominate another Chicago song – “[Beginnings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-BMDnti4c)” – which is such a moving love song yet incongruously ends with an extended jam on cowbell.

Stevie Wonder’s electrifying track [“Do I Do”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-listen-ed-to-when-high/949517) (1982) fizzles out at 9:00 with Stevie attempting to rap:

“I know I cannot rhyme, 'cause I ain’t like a friend of mine  
But I ha ha ha ha”

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