End of Me (A Day to Remember song)

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"End of Me"
ADTR End of Me radio single.jpg
Single by A Day to Remember
from the album Common Courtesy
ReleasedMarch 25, 2014
RecordedMay 2012 March 2013
Studio Jeremy McKinnon's home studio, Ocala, Florida
Length3:58
Label ADTR
Songwriter(s) Jeremy McKinnon, Andrew Wade, Chad Gilbert
Producer(s) McKinnon, Wade, Gilbert
A Day to Remember singles chronology
"Right Back at It Again"
(2013)
"End of Me"
(2014)
"Paranoia"
(2016)

"End of Me" is the second single from A Day to Remember's fifth album, Common Courtesy , released in 2013. It was released to radio on March 25, 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Music and lyrics

The song came about from singer Jeremy McKinnon and producer Andrew Wade messing around in the studio with an acoustic guitar: "the song just came from something that he [Wade] played on that I thought was so awesome that the vocal line came more or less immediately came to me." [6]

Music video

A music video for the song, directed by Shane Drake, was released on 23 June 2014. [7]

Track listing

  1. "End of Me" – 3:58

Personnel

Personnel per digital booklet. [8]

Chart positions

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [9] 40
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [10] 26

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