How Did It End?

Summary

"How Did It End?" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from the double album edition of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (2024). Written and produced by Swift and Aaron Dessner, "How Did It End?" is a melancholy piano ballad instrumented by insistent piano arpeggios and a surging string section towards the end. Using death-related imagery, its lyrics detail the aftermath of a broken relationship: the narrator expresses her anguish over others' prying into the cause of her romantic failure and her own unawareness of how it unraveled.