Emergency Broadcast :: The End Is Near

Underoath

At the end of it all
We will be sold for parts
Sold for parts
We will try to rebuild
But we ate it all away
All away

All ambitions now run dry
Someone stop this thing
Turn it off
In search of new life
Nothing will be left to walk the earth again

Turn it off
Turn it off
Turn it off

Our hopes and dreams
Will be swallowed alive
Our hopes and dreams
Will be swallowed alive
We always said
It wouldn't end up like this
Our hopes and dreams
Will be swallowed alive

We will be the new ice age
We will be the new plague
The new plague
Disguised as a colony
We will wipe them all away
Will wipe them all away

Feast your eyes
Or just rip 'em out
This is it for us
It's time to panic
Feast your eyes
Or just rip ?Em out
This is it for us
It's time to panic

We always said
It wouldn't end
We always said
It wouldn't end
We always said
It wouldn't end
We always said
It wouldn't end (we always said)
It wouldn't end up (we always said)
It wouldn't end up like this (it wouldn't end)
It wouldn't end up (we always said)
Like this (it wouldn't end)

We are the cancer
We are the virus
We are the cancer
We are the virus
Tell me it's not too late
Tell me it's not too late


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Emergency Broadcast: The End Is Near Lyrics as written by Christopher Dudley Aaron Gillespie

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    i think it could also have something to do with the last track. with both titles like almost bouncing off each other. its like we're at the end, and we need to face up and do something. yet even in the midst of our desolation and despair...there is hope.

    josiahconneron August 30, 2008   Link

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