Meaning of “Everything Ends” by JP Saxe (ft. Tiny Habits & Lizzy McAlpine)
JP Saxe is a multi-talented musician from Canada whose biggest and only true hit to date is 2019’s If the World Was Ending, a collaboration with American songstress Julia Michaels, whom he was involved with at the time.
Since then he’s dropped a couple of other songs, 2020’s “A Little Bit Yours” and 2021’s “Line by Line” (alongside Maren Morris) which made a bit of noise up north but not much anywhere else.
That said, with a discography that commenced in 2017, Saxe is forging ahead with his music career with the release “Everything Ends”, a standalone single, through Arista Records on 23 June 2023. This marks Saxe’s first collaboration with Tiny Habits, a folk-pop trio from Boston and likewise with Lizzy McAlpine, who hails from nearby Philly, Pennsylvania.
Malay, a very-successful behind-the-scenes’ musician (due to his works with Frank Ocean) is also involved in the composition of this song, serving as both a writer and producer. On the production side he worked with Lizzy McAlpine, and the other credited writers of “Everything Ends” are Tiny Habits and JP Saxe.
The Lyrics of “Everything Ends”
The title of this song is sorta misleading in that, as eventually rendered in the outro, it reads in full “everything ends except us”. And with that in mind, what it appears we’re dealing with here is a love song.
A couple of the artists involved can be considered alternative in nature, and as such a few of the lyrics, like some those featured in the second verse, as well as the pre-chorus, aren’t necessarily the easiest to understand. But the thesis sentiment is clear, which would be the vocalists celebrating their romantic relationship.
And going back to the uniqueness of the artists at hand, other lyrics, such as those found in the first verse, do an interesting job of presenting that well-worn subject matter in a fresh way, alluding to how the parties involved instantly struck up a meaningful connection upon first becoming acquainted with each other.
Or put otherwise, this reads like a love-at-first-sight type of scenario, i.e. two strangers discovering that they are kindred spirits in a troubled world. And fortunately for the two of them, even after the euphoria stage, if you will, it does appear that this romance is indeed the real thing.
