Video hit Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart - It's Over

The 69-year-old, Rod Stewart, has released the glossy new video for single It's Over, proving that the rocker certainly hasn't lost his touch when it comes to song-writing.

The self-penned and self-produced track, about divorce and separation, marks Rod's return to his musical best and is as haunting and gritty as his previous work.

The landmark release sees the singer revisit his love of honest narrative and storytelling, for which he gained such a strong fan-base in the 1970's.

Rod has admitted that writing his recent autobiography, Rod, inspired him to throw himself back into song-writing: 'Something about that process of reviewing my life for the book reconnected me and that was it: I was away. Suddenly ideas for lyrics were piling up in my head,' he said.

'Next thing I knew, I had a song called ‘It’s Over’ about divorce and separation. And now I was getting up in the middle of the night and scrambling for a pen to write things down, which has never happened to me,' he added.

Rod has worked with his photographer wife Penny Lancaster for his album artwork, who has shot the promo photo for the new single.

Honest lyrics: It's Over is a nostalgic and heart-felt song about the pain of separation.

The lyrics:

The congregation sang

We knelt and prayed

As we stood before God

On that beautiful day

The church bells rang

And the champagne flowed

As our friends gathered 'round

For the wedding photo

But here we are barely 5 years on

And our whole world's falling apart

All the plans we we had together

Up in smoke and gone forever

Poisoned by the lawyer's letters

It's over

I don't want our kids to suffer

Can we talk to one another

You were once my wife, my lover

It's over

Rumours and whispers tear you apart

But I know you better than that

Inseparable were we

With a breeze in our sails

Now I feel the chilled wind

Of a marriage that fell

And our friends are divided

They've taken their sides

Now they'll all sit back

And watch the circus arrive

I don't stand here tryna focus the blame

But I'm hurting deep down inside

All the pain and all the grieving

When did we stop believing

Too late now to stop the bleeding

It's over

What's the sense in pointing fingers

Who's the saint and who's the sinner

There ain't gonna be a winner

It's over

Oh my dear, what happened to us?

Tell me where did it all go wrong?

What's the use in keep on fighting?

All the tears, all the crying

Why do we keep denying

It's over

In all this time I thought I knew ya

Don't forget our children's future

I would do whatever suits ya

Oh yeah!

It's over

It's over

Yeah, it's over