I Know How It Ends ft. Eric Price & Santino Fontana Lyrics

I know how it ends

I've known it from            

Here   

It's all very neat

And charming and sweet

And perfectly clear

I've seen it before

I'll just skip ahead

It's hard to proceed

When all that you read

You've already read

To follow the plot

You follow the trends

Whatever's been done

In Manuscript One

Is what we go through

In Manuscript Two

So why must I see

Manuscript Three?

I know how it ends!

Oh!

No!

Don't follow the rules

Don't be so routine

Don't move ahead

Like needle and thread

When you ought to careen!

There is a book inside this room

Like a bud about to bloom

And though I need it

I think it needs me more

It's a grape that's on a vine

It's a diamond in a mine

It's a masterpiece that's locked inside a drawer

And I'm the one 

Who's bound to find it

I'm the publisher 

Behind it

I'm the way

The thing can be itself

Searching for the one

That's shining

I'm the miner 

Diamond mining

Digging through the drawer

So I can put it on the shelf!

And once it's on the shelf

It's only one degree from in your hands

And once it's in your hands

It's almost there

From hand to mind to heart

That's the pilgrimage of art

I know that I will play a part somewhere

I know how it ends

I know I'll succeed

I feel it so near

It could be right here

The next thing I read

The whole of my life

Has led to this page

What's not in the text

Is what's now and what's next

And what's waiting offstage

It's sure to show up

But when

That depends

On just how much more

Of Manuscript Four

I can survive

Until Manuscript Five

And I'm sure to hate

Six and Seven and Eight

Though they were each

Written by friends

God knows how it ever starts

But I know how it ends