‘'I Know the End’‘ is the metalinguistic closing track of Phoebe’s sophomore album Punisher.

The apocalyptical folk ballad track reclaims the singer-songwriter narrative abilities and describes a desolated… Read More [Verse 1]

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

Then I'll get up and lay back down

Romanticize a quiet life

There's no place like my room

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

Drivin' out into the sun

Let the ultraviolet cover me up

Went looking 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 bolt of lightning hanging low

Over the coast, everyone's convinced

It's a government drone or an 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 nothing there

Yeah, I guess the end is here

[Outro]

The end is here

The end is here

The end is here

The end is