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:''Not to be confused with the [[AM Radio]] song "[[If This Is the End of the World]]". | :''Not to be confused with the [[AM Radio]] song "[[If This Is the End of the World]]". | ||
"'''The End of the World'''" is a song written by composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kent_(songwriter) Arthur Kent] and lyricist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Dee Sylvia Dee] for American country music singer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis Skeeter Davis]. | "'''The End of the World'''" is a song written by composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kent_(songwriter) Arthur Kent] and lyricist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Dee Sylvia Dee] for American country music singer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis Skeeter Davis]. [[Rivers Cuomo]] covered the song in the early 2000s. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
According to the [[Recording_History_-_Page_14#12.2F.3F.3F.2F02_rivers_home_recording|Recording History]], Rivers Cuomo is first known to have recorded a demo of the song in December of [[2002]]. A partial clip of this recording was thereafter circulated by Cuomo on his website, riverscuomo.com, as "las_dos.mp3", a sound clip of him performing "The End of the World" with segments of his [[2000]] [[Weezer]] demo "[[Burning Sun]]" interspersed throughout. Fans later edited both clips to create separate sound files of "Burning Sun" and "The End of the World". | According to the [[Recording_History_-_Page_14#12.2F.3F.3F.2F02_rivers_home_recording|Recording History]], Rivers Cuomo is first known to have recorded a demo of the song in December of [[2002]]. A partial clip of this recording was thereafter circulated by Cuomo on his website, riverscuomo.com, as "las_dos.mp3", a sound clip of him performing "The End of the World" with segments of his [[2000]] [[Weezer]] demo "[[Burning Sun]]" interspersed throughout. Fans later edited both clips to create separate sound files of "Burning Sun" and "The End of the World". | ||
On [[March 21]], [[2003]], during rehearsals at S.I.R. Studios for Weezer's planned [[Make Believe|eventual fifth album]], Cuomo and Weezer bassist [[Scott Shriner]], accompanied by musicians Luke Adams and Jimmy Messner due to the unavailability of [[Brian Bell]] and [[Patrick Wilson]], recorded a full-band cover of "The End of the World", and continued recording it during rehearsal sessions over the next several days, rehearsing new Weezer songs in addition to covers of "[[Without You]]" by Harry Nilsson and "[[Unbreak My Heart]]" by Toni Braxton. Beginning [[March 26]]th, with the rest of Weezer out of town, Cuomo was accompanied by Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, and Chris Murphy of the band [[Sloan]]. The four recorded a cover of "The End of the World" alongside covers of the aforementioned "[[Without You]]", "[[I Woke Up in Love This Morning]]" by the Partridge Family, and "[[Little Diane]]" by Dion and the Belmonts. Producer [[Rick Rubin]] is known to have suggested the songs "Little Diane" and "Unbreak My Heart" to Cuomo, and so may have also been the one to suggest "The End of the World", though this is unconfirmed. | On [[March 21]], [[2003]], during rehearsals at S.I.R. Studios for Weezer's planned [[Make Believe|eventual fifth album]], Cuomo and Weezer bassist [[Scott Shriner]], accompanied by musicians Luke Adams and Jimmy Messner due to the unavailability of [[Brian Bell]] and [[Patrick Wilson]], recorded a full-band cover of "The End of the World", and continued recording it during rehearsal sessions over the next several days, rehearsing new Weezer songs in addition to covers of "[[Without You]]" by Harry Nilsson and "[[Unbreak My Heart]]" by Toni Braxton. Beginning [[March 26]]th, with the rest of Weezer out of town, Cuomo was accompanied by Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, and Chris Murphy of the band [[Sloan]]. The four recorded a cover of "The End of the World" alongside covers of the aforementioned "[[Without You]]", "[[I Woke Up in Love This Morning]]" by the Partridge Family, and "[[Little Diane]]" by Dion and the Belmonts. Producer [[Rick Rubin]] is known to have suggested the songs "Little Diane" and "Unbreak My Heart" to Cuomo[https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Alone_liner_notes][https://web.archive.org/web/20101025034723/https://americansongwriter.com/2010/10/exclusive-rivers-cuomo-explains-weezers-cover-of-un-break-my-heart/], and so may have also been the one to suggest "The End of the World", though this is unconfirmed. | ||
The [[March 21]] demo of "The End of the World" was [[Riverscuomo.com_demos#Leak.2Ffirst_wave|leaked online through the demo storefront]] on [[riverscuomo.com]] on [[November 7]], [[2020]]. As a result of being a cover song and featuring other musicians, the song was not made available for sale through the storefront. | |||
==Known recordings== | ==Known recordings== | ||
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| bgcolor="ffffaa"|Rivers Cuomo | | bgcolor="ffffaa"|Rivers Cuomo | ||
| bgcolor="ffffaa"|las_dos.mp3 | |||
| bgcolor="ffffaa"|December [[2002]] | | bgcolor="ffffaa"|December [[2002]] | ||
| bgcolor="ffffaa"|0:55 | | bgcolor="ffffaa"|0:55 | ||
| bgcolor="ffffaa"|Home recording (partial) | | bgcolor="ffffaa"|Home recording (partial) | ||
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| bgcolor=" | | bgcolor="aaffaa"|Rivers Cuomo, Scott Shriner, Luke Adams, Jimmy Messner | ||
| bgcolor=" | | bgcolor="aaffaa"|01 End of the World.mp3 | ||
| bgcolor=" | | bgcolor="aaffaa"|[[March 21]], [[2003]] | ||
| bgcolor=" | | bgcolor="aaffaa"|3:40 | ||
| bgcolor="aaffaa"|S.I.R. Studios | |||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, ? | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, ? | ||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 25]] (?), [[2003]] | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 25]] (?), [[2003]] | ||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy | ||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 26]], [[2003]] | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 26]], [[2003]] | ||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy | ||
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| bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 29]], [[2003]] | | bgcolor="ffaaaa"|[[March 29]], [[2003]] | ||
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==Lyrics== | |||
<poem>Why does the sun go on shining? | |||
Why does the sea rush to shore? | |||
Don't they know it's the end of the world? | |||
'Cause you don't love me anymore | |||
Why do the birds go on singing? | |||
Why do the stars glow above? | |||
Don't they know it's the end of the world? | |||
It ended when I lost your love | |||
I wake up in the morning and I wonder | |||
Why everything's the same as it was | |||
I can't understand, no, I can't understand | |||
How life goes on the way it does | |||
Why does my heart go on beating? | |||
Why do these eyes of mine cry? | |||
Don't they know it's the end of the world? | |||
It ended when you said goodbye</poem> | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
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