STYX - Don't Let It End with Lyrics

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"Don't Let It End" is the third track and the second top 10 single on the 1983 album 'Kilroy Was Here', by Styx. The song is also reprised at the end of the album.

The song was written and sung by Dennis DeYoung. The track is a mid-tempo ballad about one who breaks up with a lover and pleads to get the person back. Styx guitarist James Young said that "it has sort of an underlying double meaning – music is what we love. It's obviously a love song between two people, but it's meant to carry over, and at the end in the reprise it is more blatant [that rock 'n' roll rather than romance is what the singer wants to keep alive]."

According to DeYoung, the track was originally slated as the first single from Kilroy Was Here until the staff at A&M suggested "Mr. Roboto". DeYoung said:
["Don't Let It End" is] not gonna scare our audience. It's not gonna upset radio. It's not gonna make anybody crazy, because they'll say "Oh, we know that side of Styx. We've been listening to these assholes for over eleven years. We know what that is."

But ultimately the band decided to take a chance that the power of "Mr. Roboto" would be a better choice as the lead single.