Endgame

Intro (x2 verse 1    And on that day they’ll tell you    That life hummed on with no clue    The warning signs were all dismissed or shouted down So it goes The kings all failed to tell us    The madmen failed to sell us    On what would then befall the only life we’d know Refrain 1 Were they burning signal fires to guide us to the fields? Or building funeral pyres? The outcome of a final appeal    The city lines are down the kerosene’s run out The fracturing of all we relied upon Let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone       verse 2    The paranoia gripped us   the rain turned engines to rust    The panic set in like a cancer to our hearts Spreading through We bet on finite genius   or prayed for gods to save us    But there was no antidote disease tore us apart Refrain 2 We left bodies in the fields So numb that we forgot how to feel    The city lines are down the kerosene’s run out The fracturing of all we relied upon Let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone Bridge      He looked at the fields and then his hands All I need is what I have Then fell a tear of happiness oh oh oh oh   She watched the world crumble away "Is this the end of yesterday?"   "Lord I hope so" is all he said All gone are the old guards Gone are the cold cold wars Weightless we go forth On wings of amnesty Oh we relied on now    The city lines are down the kerosene’s run out The fracturing of all we relied upon Let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone    No more no more No more no more No more no more No more no more No more no more The weight that we once felt is gone