The End of the World

"The End of the World" is a song written by composer Arthur Kent and lyricist Sylvia Dee for American country music singer Skeeter Davis. Rivers Cuomo covered the song in the early 2000s.
==Overview==
According to the 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 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 26th, 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 CuomoCuomo, Rivers. Liner notes. Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. 2007. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Alone_liner_notesSchlansky, Evan. "Exclusive: Rivers Cuomo Explains Weezer’s Cover Of “Un-Break My Heart”". American Songwriter. 22 October 2010. 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 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==
Performer(s) 	Title 	Filename 	Date of recording 	Recording location 	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo 	The End of the World	las_dos.mp3 	December 2002 	Home recording (partial)	0:55 	 	Interspersed with partial recording of "Burning Sun"
Rivers Cuomo, Scott Shriner, Luke Adams, Jimmy Messner 	The End of the World	 	March 21, 2003 	S.I.R. Studios 	 	 	
Rivers Cuomo, ? 	The End of the World	 	March 25 (?), 2003	S.I.R. Studios 	 	 	
Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy	The End of the World	 	March 26, 2003 	S.I.R. Studios 	 	 	
Rivers Cuomo, Andrew Scott, Patrick Pentland, Chris Murphy	The End of the World	01 End of the World.mp3	March 29, 2003 	S.I.R. Studios 	3:40 	 	Unreleased, leaked on riverscuomo.com.
==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 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
==See also==
*List of cover songs
*"Little Diane"
*"Without You"
*"I Woke Up in Love This Morning"
*"Unbreak My Heart"
*Recording History - Page 14
==References==
Category:Cover songs
Category:Known recordings table