I Know The End

Album: Punisher (2020)
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  • Somewhere in Germany, but I can't place it
    Man, I hate this part of Texas
    Close my eyes, fantasize
    Three clicks and I'm home
    When I get back, I'll lay around
    And I'll get up and lay back down
    Romanticize a quiet life
    There's no place like my room

    But you had to go, I know, I know, I know
    Like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore
    Not even the burnouts are out here anymore
    And you had to go, I know, I know, I know

    Out in the park, we watch the sunset
    Talkin' on a rusty swing set
    After a while, you went quiet
    And I got mean
    I'm always pushin' you away from me
    But you come back with gravity
    And when I call, you come home
    A bird in your teeth

    So I gotta go, I know, I know, I know
    When the sirens sound, you'll hide under the floor
    But I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado
    I'm gonna chase it, I know, I know, I know
    I gotta go now, I know, I know, I know

    Drivin' out into the sun
    Let the ultraviolet cover me up
    Went lookin' for a creation myth
    Ended up with a pair of cracked lips
    Windows down, scream along
    To some America First rap-country song
    A slaughterhouse, an outlet mall
    Slot machines, fear of God
    Windows down, heater on
    Big bolts of lightning hangin' low
    Over the coast, everyone's convinced
    It's a government drone or alien spaceship
    Either way, we're not alone
    I'll find a new place to be from
    A haunted house with a picket fence
    To float around and ghost my friends
    No, I'm not afraid to disappear
    The billboard said, "The End Is Near"
    I turned around, there was nothin' there
    Yeah, I guess the end is here

    (The end is here)
    (The end is here)
    (The end is here)
    (The end is) Writer/s: Christian Lee Hutson, Conor M. Oberst, Marshall Vore, Phoebe Bridgers
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Andrew Gruchy from Southern CaliforniaI keep coming back to this song. Beautiful the whole song, music words and vocals
  • Brian Verderosa from Connecticut I’m just trying to figure out if this is the best song I’ve heard in the last ten years. Jesus.
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