END SCENE is the final song to Ruel’s debut album called 4TH WALL. The album is inspired by Ruel’s favorite films including The Truman Show and Fight Club. Knowing the situation behind the lyrics, the album has quite an existential feel to it, Ruel visualizes the album as trying to get out of wherever you are driving through country roads, all while the songs of the album are playing on the radio of your car. The reason the album is called 4TH WALL is because Ruel feels like he puts on a different character whenever the outside world sees him as a musician, separating his true self from the public world, and he released this album to break the 4th wall to let his fans get to truly see him through his new and different music that he felt genuinely represented him and his thoughts. To clarify, the 4th wall is an invisible wall that separates actors from the audience as if the actors don’t know that the audience is watching them.
Ruel’s song END SCENE is mainly inspired by scenes from Fight Club with different themes included in the audio and the lyrics. Ruel explains the situation in the song as similar to Bonnie and Clyde where two people feel like they have lost their ways of being fun, stopped enjoying being bad, they realize it’s the end of an era. END SCENE starts out soft with light chords and vocals in the beginning verse, and progresses into a strong emotional chorus with raspy vocals. Towards the end of the song (4:25), you can hear explosions and a plane crash, similar to the scene in Fight Club with all the buildings falling down. The last chorus and the outro finished the song in a cinematic way (2:49) with the choir background singing “Oooh” repetitively, the deep rumbling bass, and the harmonies created a really nice resolution to the song, making it feel as if the world was ending, but also feeling as if it’s going to be okay in the end.