I Know The End - Phoebe Bridgers

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Learnt it from this video of her playing it in an Instagram livestream:
https://youtu.be/TN2T1ttq1S4

A cover of me playing it, acoustic so may be a little easier to hear and figure it out:
https://youtu.be/LL6qvWoHRug

Edit: People pointed out to me that the G#maj11/G chord was missing. I've updated this, but I don't play it
in this cover. It's played for the last two measures of the bar before each D#m11 chord in the outro. It's
pretty clear to see in her video.

[Chords]

There's a lot and they have scary names but they're pretty simple are often variations of each other

                                         D#11sus2

C#|--0--------
G#|--0--------
E#|--0--------
C#|--0--------
G#|--9--------
C#|--7--------

-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-7---------5--
-5---------4--

-------0------
-------0------
-------0------
-------0------
-------5------
-------5------

---0---------0
---0---------0
---0---------8
---0---------0
---4---------9
---5---------9

---------0----
---------0----
---------12---
---------0----
---------12---
---------12---

-----0--------
-----0--------
-----5--------
-----0--------
-----5--------
-----5--------

-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-7---------0--
-0---------0--
-7---------2--
-7---------2--

-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|


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C#|--0--------
G#|--0--------
E#|--0--------
C#|--0--------
G#|--4--------
C#|--4--------

-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-0---------1--
-0---------0--
-5---------2--
-0---------2--

-------0------
-------0------
-------3------
-------0------
-------5------
-------5------

---0---------0
---0---------0
---7---------3
---0---------0
---7---------5
---6---------0

---------0----
---------0----
---------8----
---------0----
---------0----
---------0----

-----0--------
-----0--------
-----8--------
-----0--------
-----8--------
-----8--------

-0---------0--
-0---------0--
-3---------6--
-0---------0--
-0---------8--
-0---------8--

-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|
-------|


Picking pattern for the first half:

C#|-----------

--------------

-|
|-----------X-----------X--|
|-----X-----------X--------|
|--------X-----------X-----|
|--------------X-----------|
|--X-----------------------|

She varies this slightly (e.g. swapping when she picks the 6th string and 5th string when she moves between
F#maj9 and F#maj9#11) but it pretty much stays the same until the outro which she strums.


[Intro]
                  

[Verse 1]
             
Somewhere in G

#/
ermany but I c

an't place it

Man, I hate th

is part of Tex

as

Close my eyes,

 fantasize
        
Three clicks a

       
nd I'm home
     
When I get bac

k I'll lay aro

und
    
And I'll get u

p and lay back

 down
  
Romanticize th

e quiet life
        
There's no pla

           
ce like my roo

      
m


[Chorus 1]
              
But you gotta 


go
            
I know, I know

    
, I know
          
Like a wave th

              
at crashed and

            
 melted on the

 
 shore
             
Not even the b

#         
urnouts are ou

      
t here anymore
               D#11sus2
And you had to go
          
I know, I know

           
,    I know

[Verse 2]
    
Out in the par

k we watch the

 sunset

Talking on a r

usty swing set
         
After a while 

              
you went quiet

     
 and I got mea


n
       
Always pushing

 you away from

 me
    
But you comeba

ck with gravit

y
         
And when I cal

              
l you come hom

    
e
       
A bird in your

      
     teeth

[Chorus 2]
           
So I gotta go


            
I know, I know

    
, I know
          
When the siren

              
s sound you'll

            
 hide under th

  
e floor
              
But I'm not go

          
nna go down wi

        
th my hometown

         
 in a tornado
          
I'm gonna chas

e it
          
I know, I know

#  
, I know
        
I gotta go now
          
I know, I know

#    
,        I kno

     
w

[Outro]
            
            
         
     Driving o

        
ut into the su

   
n
             
Let the ultrav

# 
iolet cover me

 
 up
              
Went looking f

        
or a creation 


myth
        
Ended up with 

     
a pair of crac

    
ked lips
             
Windows down, 

#         
scream along
              
To some Americ

      
a first rap co

 
untry song
              
A slaughterhou

        
se, an outlet 

 
mall
        
Slot machines,

  
 fear of God
             
Windows down, 

#        
heater on
              
Big bolts of l

   
ightning hangi

 
ng low
              
Over the coast

        
, everyone's c

   
onvinced
              
It's a governm

       
ent drone or a

# 
lien spaceship
           
Either way, we

            
're not alone
            
I'll find a ne

    
w place to be 

 
from
              
A haunted hous

        
e with a picke

        
t fence
          
To float aroun

    
d and ghost my

 
 friends
              
No, I'm not af

        
raid to disapp

     
ear
              
The billboard 

   
said the end i

 
s near
              
I turned aroun

        
d, there was n

             
othing there
        
Yeah, I guess 

     
the end is her

      
e
        
Yeah, I guess 

     
the end is her

      
e
      
I guess the en

       
d is here
        
Yeah, I guess 

     
the end is her

         
e

[Strange sounding end bit]
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