It Ends Tonight
"It Ends Tonight" is a song by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released as the third and final single from their second studio album Move Along on September 19, 2006.
Background and composition
"It Ends Tonight" was written by Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter. Along with the title track, it was one of the last songs written for Move Along and as revealed by the band in an interview on Soundstage is about a "dude" rather than addressed to a female love interest.
Contrary to the band's typical style of up-beat power-pop, the song is a ballad and utilizes a string section, with an arrangement by composer Deborah Lurie.
Reception
Critical reception
The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics. About.com commented: "'It Ends Tonight' will provide a suitably dreamy sounding late evening mood for the band's eager fans, but it fails to reach the distinctiveness of the previous hits 'Dirty Little Secret' and 'Move Along'. The lyrics kick off in intriguing fashion with 'Your subtleties / They strangle me,' but that is as good as it gets. Ultimately, it's a grandly ambiguous tune about the end of a generic relationship."
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It Ends
by: Blue Eyed DevilsYeah, I saw their symbols burning down.
The new world order razed to the ground.
The years of oppression spit back in their face.
A noble beginning has become a disgrace.
The pain, the torment, the hypocrisy.
A world consumed by this tyranny.
The masses swallow all they have been fed.
Ingesting the poison, they are blindly led.
This society rots and slowly dies.
The result of a nation built on lies.
Deceit continues, animosity grows.
The invincible fortress has its weakness exposed.
Destruction of the system, this occupied state.
Incessant corruption has sealed its fate.
Ignorant masses pledge their loyalty,
to a government run by political greed.
This shell of a nation crumbles and dies.
Righteous attacks sustain its demise
Nothing of value to defend
Like those before, it also must end