Phoebe Bridgers "I Know The End" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2020
- Phoebe Bridgers‘ “I Know The End” is the singer-songwriter’s fourth single from her critically acclaimed sophomore album, 'Punisher.' The standout track, which closes her album, has racked up more than 6 million plays to date on Spotify and its music video has garnered more than 1 million RUclips views. On the latest episode of 'Verified,' Bridgers broke down the song’s apocalyptic theme and explained why the track ends with a cacophony of screams.
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how does she have such a deep speaking voice and such a high angelic singing voice how does that work
Ask justin vernon too about this. Those vocal range tho 🤯
She sings in head voice :)
it’s like the opposite of florence welch omg
and they’re both so beautiful :)
Head voice. My voice when speaking is that mid-lower register like Phoebe's but if I sing in my head voice it's quite high and soft (but kinda twee, my head voice is no where near this pretty.) If I sing from my chest the tone is closer to my speaking voice.
hearing a songwriter like phoebe break a song down is so so special
i know rightt
Yes
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again!! She’s such a lyrical genius!!
no she is speaking about the biblical end of the world wake up stop being a zombie
@@IbokRock811 no she is not she is just speaking about the biblical end of the world wake up stop being a zombie. she probably has some satanic handler pulling her strings.
"A haunted house with a picket fence / to float around and ghost my friends" is such a fucking good line
Chokes me up every time
I don't really understand that one as English isn't my native language, mind explaining it to me?
@@dudeno5811 usually a picket fence is used to signify a like "ideal life" because it's whats most common to see in a middle class suburban house so "a haunted house with a picket fence" is an oxymoron to show phoebe was okay with the end of the world, almost like death is ideal in her mind. for the second part everything is pretty much forward but ghost is used as slang, when used as slang it means to kinda avoid someone until they stop contacting you.
best line on the album
don't know how intentional this was, but I love the imagery of the swing set followed by "I'm always pushing you away from me, but you come back with gravity"
Shittttt good one...
brilliant
you really think Phoebe is that dumb not to do it intentional? 😐
@@claudia-vw4ld rawr
Damn that's such a good observation
I’ve cried way too many times to “Punisher”, Phoebe made a classic
@Nautica Gibson ?
@Nautica Gibson ahhhh you maddddd
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@Nautica Gibson omg shut up 🙈🤩
Fleetwood Mac : breakup, hate each other, wrote diss tracks about each other
Phoebe and Marshall Vore : breakup, still cool with each other, write sad songs together
It’s Marshall Vore btw
@@mattwagner73 omg hahaha.. i didnt realize what i typed lol..edited
and both slap
how does she have such a deep speaking voice and such a high angelic singing voice how does that work
Lol, never thought of Stevie, Lindsey, Mick, John and Christine singing or playing on "diss tracks," but hey, why not?
all hail our emo mother
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I hope she makes a skramz band
there's literally a story and so much thought behind every lyric. how is this woman on this same earth with us
IKR it is so beautiful
dude every SINGLE song is a whole story
You are your own planet. Do something amazing too. What are you waiting for?
I now understand what people mean when they say you don’t deserve to breathe the same air cause ?????
no there isn't she is just speaking about the biblical end of the world wake up stop being a zombie. the aliens are the fallen angels/demons.
This is my best friend y’all, she just doesn’t know it
I FELT this
OMG we have a friend in common
Same lmao
yu9b are
nice pfp lowkey tho
I just realized I’ve never heard Phoebe’s speaking voice and that is literally what I want my voice to sound like
i wish i had a deeper voice
my voice is like that, but sometimes i get made fun of for it by online friends 😔
This is what I want my voice to not sound like
@@Em-gj2sg lol same, but with phoebe it clicks.
My voice is deep but I sound like a little boy when I speak. I wish I had Phoebe’s voice.
Why did it take genius so long to invite phoebe on here smh
SERIOUSLY
They’re too busy cashing in on memes.
Im your 999 like
I interpreted this song a completely different way than she intended and I think that’s what’s beautiful about music
she really is the moment
heyyyyy sunwoo!!
@@icedtimmy4663 OMG hi!
sunwoo
tbz and phoebe? u have taste
@@landa604 omg thank you!
I saw somewhere that Phoebe Bridgers is Taylor Swift for the girls who have crumbs in their bed and I feel that in the depths of my soul
hello fellow sapphics with anxiety
i can’t believe we’re all here
heyyyy
HELPPPP
hi it’s nice to meet u
Hi
Cool... I actually just deadass cried to this album last night. I teared to the other songs, but it was honestly this song that broke me into an uncontrollable mess. It still hurts, but thanks for helping me cope with a loss
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i hope you're feeling better now
Sorry to hear about your loss, hope you’re well
“Romanticize a quiet life
There’s no place like my room”
FAVORITE LYRIC
I always thought the "3 clicks and I'm home" was a Wizard of Oz reference
Especially with the additional references to tornadoes, it kinda reinforced that idea for me, too
I think that the Wizard of Oz reference is so obvious that she preferred to focus on other details about the lyrics. She says "3 clicks and I'm home", "There's no place like (home) my room", and "I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado".
Clicks are kilometers when I was in the army.
My dumbass thought three clicks was the number of clicks she need to call an uber 💀💀
Thought the same thing!
Phoebe saying "Fuck Toby Keith" is everything I needed
This is my favorite song on the album. 10/10 masterpiece.
SOTY IMO
You can't rate perfections :)
@OneSilentGiant Savior Complex and I Know the End are amazing.
100% song of the year yea
She mentioned parents and immediately got too real for me
i can't believe this woman is a real person
this song really hits some deep, inner part of my psyche like. every time I hear it I start crying. I truly don't understand how she can do that she is sooooooo talented. how does it feel like she's speaking to me personally even though she's talking about something so incredibly specific to herself???
same♡ i just weep lol
I knowww! And not just that, most of the time i don't feel like she's speaking to me, i feel like i'm speaking to myself? Like i just never knew the words and the wrote it and handed my own feelings back to me. Haven't had another artist (other than Mitski) do that to me in an incredibly long time
@@riverlari well said♡
the beauty of music. it's both personal and universal.
Same! This song makes me weep every time, brings up this deep emotion from down in my stomach.
goodness i'm used to verified breaking down metaphors, not building an even more poetic background to the lyrics lol
literally though, like she's got a whole movie plot going on in the background of this song and each line is its own mini-story. craziness
I have “I know the end” tattooed on my body because this song is the only one that makes me want to start again and do not give up.
Thank you Phoebe, I really love u and all you have done to me with your music
I have “let the ultraviolet cover me up”!
As i have said before, punisher is a roadtrip album
i listened to it on a road trip and let me tell you that is absolutely true, especially listening to i know the end on the 5 freeway that was pretty meta
@@cliogoodwin2066 !!!!! A fellow intellectual thank u!!! Its such an insane feeling listening to I know the end on a roadtrip
i drove 3 and a half hours away and i only listened to punisher
Mm yes that is one of the best things on earth
Facts
when she said America first rap country song for some reason old town road popped into my head
Same kkkkkk
i was thinking Big and Rich Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
This..this comment...this song always reminds me of this damn comment
SAME 😭
she needs to do one on every song.
No bc fr I’m too slow and lazy to really get in there and understand the lyrics, they still sound amazing tho.
@@crazybabuskaman3923genius website helps a lot haha
YES
this song 1000% sounds like the end of the world in a way that makes me want it to be the end of the world
this is the same show that interviewed the floss kid
I'm so happy shes famous and taking over the music scene. She is so sincere and important. She's my emotional and creative role model
i once pulled an all-nighter so i could watch the sunrise and i sat out on my roof as the sun was coming up BLARING this song in my headphones. it was like a chilly ass morning in june and i was just watching the world waking up, listening to a song about it ending. different plane of existence on GOD
I can only imagine
i am in love with this woman
I always imagine this song as a sort of dystopian wizard of oz
I always interpreted "A slaughterhouse / An outlet mall / Slot machines / Fear of God" to be listing off twisted American values
Same. Especially right after the lyric about the America First rap country song
Is fear of God a twisted value?
@@truttret7681 yes
@@truttret7681 It depends
@@truttret7681 i think the point is more that so much of american culture/american values are directly contradictory. christians, especially in america, boast a fear of god, yet so much of our culture is a rotten bastardization of the very values christianity champions.
hello lgbtq community
underrated comment
LMAO hi
I've been summoned
hello
heyyy
the way she so flawlessly stayed in key a capella is so impressive
literally an icon, Punisher is a classic
Her music is the perfect equivalent of autophobia and liminality. I swear she perfectly captures the feeling of loneliness especially in this song when she talks about the end of the world. Honestly I'm so dissociated that I don't feel much fear anymore but her music makes me feel fear for loneliness again. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing but it's good to feel something again.
seriously the best song writer in a while
not me listening to the first verse and pretending i'm a singer and hate being on tour too
Phoebe stans EATING
Kinda cracks me up how literal her songwriting process is..
“the end is here”
me: the world is ending 😈😈😈
phoebe: its the end of the album🥰
no it's literally ending the song is about the biblical end of the world. the aliens are the fallen angels and demons.
no she is singing about the biblical end of the world wake up stop being a zombie. she has satanic handlers who made the lyrics for her.
Bruh me too 😂
She sounds older than she looks which I love
mature queen
shes from my hometown of Pasadena! i saw her play when she was younger in a coffeeshop in south Pas a LONG time ago. so happy to see her success. she really deserves it
I've cried to this song so many times, it was sort of an emotional guidance for me in a particularly intense period (of the kind that makes you feel alive though, so it's all good). Somehow hearing mundane details about the origin of some lines made it even more poetic.
Her words "How you hate certain things about being on tour, and you hate it when you come home also" touched me somewhere painfully.
The best thing about some music is that it can mean so many things to so many different people...especially Phoebe's music, because it is so interpertive. I think that the ability to make people feel like a song is written just for them is something really special and beautiful. She is truly a gifted human.
This song grew and grew and grew on me until I became fully a Phoebe Bridgers fan and started looking up all her stuff. Lovely music, lovely soul. Hope she keeps it up!
she really did something with this record
did anyone else come watch this *while* listening to Phoebe's music lmao
@OneSilentGiant i love that like every phoebe fan is also a mitski stan
came from the ASMR vid she did
@OneSilentGiant WOWZA thank u :)
love this woman with my entire existence
I interpreted the first verse in a really weird way. I was thinking about the whole Germany Texas thing, and the line “3 clicks and I’m home” reminded me of going on Google maps in my room, envisioning all the places I’d never been to and seeing them online rather than in actual life.
this song is one of the best song i’ve heard in my life, everytime i listen to it i can’t help but cry like a baby
i love this woman with the entirety of my heart
What a move to publish this video on election eve. Let's hope for the best!
was thinking the same thing !!!!
A real singer doing this series is electrifying. You're looking at one of the most important artists in a long time.
She is everything
she is so special. she actually owns my heart !! underrated queen
that awkward moment when Genius interviews real artists 😳
kinda cringe claiming that because you don’t like someone’s music that means they aren’t artists. I love Phoebe but this is an awful take.
@@kogut5851 i mean,, if you wanna consider the likes of gabbie hanna, queen naija, flight, and so many others that genius have interviewed as actual artists then that’s on you lmao. there’s a difference between a bunch of youtubers who THINK they can sing VS actual artists with real talent.
@@wig99 And do those people comprise a majority of their interviews? No.
@@kogut5851 Genius doesn't care about the artists they get as long as they're popular. If I released a song tomorrow that became the biggest song in the world they'd ask me to be on. The complaint isn't really "they always interview shitty musicians, glad there's finally a good one!", its moreso "they don't/rarely give musicians who aren't mainstream the time of day, because they don't get as many clicks."
Which is a valid complaint imo. It's understandable to try to get as many clicks as possible. That's what keeps the bills paid. But they really don't let the light shine on smaller artists that often and it's a real big shame.
@@kogut5851 it may have been a joke but what do i know
I've been obsessed with the entire record and especially this song for 2 weeks now.
man I wish she'd gone more into "a slaughterhouse, an outlet mall, slot machines, fear of God". I'm really curious to know what those lyrics mean to her
From my understanding it’s stuff you literally see driving on the 5 freeway
That’s the line that I was most curious about too
LITERALLY
To me she's spurting out random stuff that affects people in their daily life (pre-apocalypse), and now that the end is happening, you see them being eaten away by the apocalypse. Suddenly, they don't matter anymore.
i think shes singing about things she sees while driving down the highway/freeway. it ties in with "the billboard said the end is near" and how she drove away from the end of the world until she couldnt anymore idk
LOL I like how this came out on US Election Day. Genius, you ain’t slick,,
This is my favorite song rn I cannot get enough of the feeling it gives me.
I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying I'm not crying
man i thought the rap country song was old town road 😭
Greatest song of all time on a perfect album
this song has affected me more than i can ever explain. oh my god. im getting a tattoo for this song soon too. i love phoebe.
I’ve played this song way too many times
The screaming at the end is immaculate
she’s so comforting it’s scary
I love both her voices. She's just a poet
This album is such a mood for the times we’re in
in conclusion: the end is here
MARIE??
@@aidan9004 BESTIE!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?
@@mallulamounier YEP YEP HIHIHI
@@aidan9004 HIII
Our girl is finally out in the light. I'm so happy.
I go back to this regularly because I’m so impressed by the amount of things, stories and messages in this song
heck yeah phoebe bridgers supremacy ✨
I love how she sways when shes singing
this is my favorite song to cry to. thank u phoebe
First time I listened to this song it triggered a two day mental spiral and several anxiety attacks and I’d still give my liver to hear it for the first time again
punisher is such a prefect album
this album is my biggest obsession
this song... i can't even describe how it makes me feel i can't i can't
Whats funny is that in smoke signals i always actually imagined seagulls not pelicans lol
i love you phobia bridge
I love when genius interviews actually talented artists😍 & when the artist actually provides insight into the real meaning of the lyrics because they actually have depth😍😍😍
I love to listen to this song while I'm traveling. it's calming, bringing up my home sickness, and makes feel nice as i look out the window and reminisce about home
watching this while she's on tour rn, and after i went to one of her shows. love u phoebe
I love how honest Phoebe is
IVE BEEN WAITINF FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
ME TOO I'M SO HAPPY
I love the message of the song... truly amazing and inspiring... hits me specially right now that I'm going through some dark times 🫠
Hope life gets better
Pheobe, you never fail to give me goosebumps.
is that NICK CAVE IN THE BACKGROUND periodtt
yeah she said it was him in another interview
ITS MY FAVORITE PASTY VAMPIRE
It's wild that she didn't mention any of the Wizard of Oz allusions in the lyrics. There's clearly a lot to talk about! It was cool to hear the less apparent details unpacked.
just wanna say thank you Phoebe for all you do. you’ve been contributing so much. i see you and appreciate you for fundraising. you’ve provided more emotional support personally than i could put into words 💌
Every time this year I’m like “eff this sh**” (more times than I can count), this is the song I play for myself.
a lot of people don't realize how hard it is to sing acapella like that, she sounds so lovely
phoebe's live voice is so so so good