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Skeeter Davis
Album : Mary Frances
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lyrics
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 any more
[Verse 2]
Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
It ended when I lost your love
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
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
"The End of the World" is a pop song written by composer Arthur Kent and lyricist Sylvia Dee, who often worked
as a team. They wrote the song for American singer Skeeter Davis, and her recording of it was highly successful in the early
1960s, reaching the Top-5 on four different charts, including #2 on the main Billboard Hot 100. It spawned many cover versions.
"The End of the World" is a sad song about the
aftermath of a romantic breakup. Dee, the lyricist, said she drew on her sorrow
from her father's death to set the mood for the song.
Davis recorded her version with sound engineer Bill Porter on
June 8, 1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville,
produced by Chet Atkins, and
featuring Floyd Cramer.[1] Released by RCA Records in December 1962, "The
End of the World" peaked in March 1963 at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot
100 (behind "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby & the
Romantics), No. 2 on the Billboard country singles,[2] No. 1 on Billboard's easy listening,
and No. 4 on Billboard's rhythm and blues.[3] It is the first, and, to date,
only time that a song cracked the Top 10 (and Top 5) on all four Billboard
charts.[4] Billboard ranked
the record as the No.
2 song of 1963.
In the Davis version, after she sings the whole song
through in the key of B-flat-major, the song
modulates up by a half step to the key of B, where Davis speaks the first two
lines of the final stanza, before singing the rest of the stanza, ending the
song.
"The End of the World" was played at Atkins's funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart. The song was also played at
Davis's own funeral at the Ryman Auditorium. Her version has been
featured in several films, TV shows, and video games (see "Appearances in
media" below).
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