Halsey
The End lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2024
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:18
Every couple of years now, a doctor says I'm sick
Pulls out a brand-new bag of tricks and then they lay it on me
And at first, it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain
And I don't like to complain, but I'm saying sorry
When I met you, I thought I was damaged goods
Had a fucked up childhood
And there's poison in my brain and in my blood
If you knew it was the end of the world, could you love me like a child?
Could you hold me in the dark?
If you knew it was the end of the world, would you like to stay a while?
Would you leave when it gets hard?
So, I ran into the clinic and I asked to see the man
With his white coat and his stethoscope like a snake around his hand
And I told him I'm not bitter 'cause I finally found a lover
Who's better for my liver, and now I'll finally recover
When I met him, I thought I was damaged goods
From a real bad neighborhood
So we wrestled in the mud
And I told him he could stay right where he stood
But I don't know if he should
'Cause once my God destroys the flesh, then there's the flood
If you knew it was the end of the world, could you love me like a child?
Could you hold me in the dark?
If you knew it was the end of the world, would you like to stay a while?
Maybe we could build an ark
We could sail on broken driftwood through the sopping wet terrain
And count the buildings and the bodies getting swallowed by the rain
And in the water, there's the doctor who didn't listen to my claim
What a shame, he's circling a drain
When I met you, I said I would never die
But the joke was always mine 'cause I'm racing against time
And I know it's not the end of the world, but could you pick me up at eight?
'Cause my treatment starts today
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Key vocabulary
- around
- in a circular areaA1
- love
- deep careA1
- neighborhood
- nearby communityA1
- once
- at one timeA1
- ran
- past of runA1
- real
- true or actualA1
- says
- states (in words)A1
- sick
- ill; impressive (slang)A1
- couple
- two people or thingsA2
- stethoscope
- listening tool for heartB2
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About this song
Halsey is an American pop singer-songwriter born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. Their work blends alternative and mainstream pop with sharp, often satirical storytelling across albums like BADLANDS and Manic.