The End

"got a grenade in my mouth and my finger on the pin ready to rip it out."

"got a grenade stuck in your teeth, and you're pulling at the pin."

a little too similar, eh?

yeah i noticed that as well

it about letting old memories go and facing the end of old times

I have this, dying day, and Eulogy, are there any more new song demos?. and yes those lines are way too similar I noticed it righ away, what up wit dat?:)

hook me up with STD demos!...MxTT811

Ever think that he might just be referencing another song?

Anyone ever think that this song is relating to the "failure" (in record sales and critique) of In Reverie? How he has so much pressure on him this time to write an album that does better. This song is just saying he is going to write what he wants to write and just stand up and face it, and he is willing to face the end if that's what happens.

Here are the real lyrics:

Cut off my flailing limbs pawn off what's left within land of the living dead time to face the end

Smile for the camera suck in that gut don't shame your family you'll have bad luck the whole world is waiting to see when you fall the cracked coffee cup from the senior prom the faded red dress on the neighbor's lawn the whole world is waiting to see when you fall

I'm a danger to myself always blaming someone else got the grenade in my mouth and my finger on the pin ready to rip it out

In the old lyrics, the speaker went on to insult the person they're referring to.

"Got a grenade in your teeth, and you're pullin' at the pin. You're an imbecile..."

I think Chris might be saying, in this song, that he realized just in time that he was acting in an uncharacteristic way. The song is definitely about regrets.

I see 'the End' as representing rock stardom. At least at the begining of the song. The pressures of following up 'Stay What You Are' and to an extent the recognition they started to receive from more mainstream press. I don't want to blame every song on this album for the poor reception that 'In Reverie' received, but that is an underlying theme. Of course I don't imagine Chris is always dwelling on it. It's just that a lot of the emotions on this album could be easily linked to that, among other things. That's just what I hear repeating itself.

As a side note, I kinda wish Rivers Cuomo had put out an album about how frustrated he was with 'Pinkerton's initial failure, instead of locking himself away for four years and releasing an shiny pop album to prove he could and compensate for 'Pinkerton's experimentation and soul-baring.