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End of the World Lyrics
Don't you forget what I've told you
for so many years:
We are hopeless and slaves to our fears,
We're an accident called human beings,
Don't be angry for loving the baby
or say it's unreal.
So many lies turn to songs,
like roses who hide in their thorns.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes,
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead though pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
In your room doing nothing but staring,
at flickering screens
Streets are empty,
but still you can hear
joy of children turning to tears.
Disease hides around every corner,
quietly still.
Wait for the moment to heal
Wait for God, want his touch, want to feel.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes,
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead though pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
Take this pill it will make you feel dizzy,
and then give you wings.
Soon boy you're falling to sleep
without nightmares, without any fears.
If you wake up in hell or in heaven
tell the angels we're here,
waiting below for a dream,
here in the garden of sin.
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes,
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead but pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
for so many years:
We are hopeless and slaves to our fears,
We're an accident called human beings,
Don't be angry for loving the baby
or say it's unreal.
So many lies turn to songs,
like roses who hide in their thorns.
the end of the world.
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes,
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead though pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
at flickering screens
Streets are empty,
but still you can hear
joy of children turning to tears.
Disease hides around every corner,
quietly still.
Wait for the moment to heal
Wait for God, want his touch, want to feel.
the end of the world.
It's a prison for dreams and for hopes,
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead though pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
and then give you wings.
Soon boy you're falling to sleep
without nightmares, without any fears.
If you wake up in hell or in heaven
tell the angels we're here,
waiting below for a dream,
here in the garden of sin.
yet still we believe there is God.
It's the end of the world,
the end of the world.
We're dead but pretend we're alive.
Full of ignorance, fools in disguise.
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Actually, this song is a translation and was written by Aviv Gefen who is an Israely that's working with blackfield. he is a musical genius, but a very pessimistic peron and so is his songs.. for me, its about being too optimistic, about not seeing the reality as it is - we dont want too see all the pain because it hearts too much, but that's what makes us blind, we are fooling ourselves - "Full of ignorance, fools in disguise", and by the time we wiil realize it, it will be too late. there's so much to say about the meanning of this song but i want to translate just one verse too demostrate what i mean "so take the pill that will make you fly far away from this place when thay'll find you you'll be dead and they will write that you were silent if the dead coult talk - what would you say? you would scream at everyone look - it's the end of the world"
A very beautiful Song! The best Blackfield-song so far. I think we should all live our lifes with more happieness and maybe passion. And I think this is what they want to express with this song... (If I have a bad english please forgive me, I'm from germany ;)
"Tell the angels we're here" - not "till the end you're still here". Great, great, morbid song. Reflects exactly my view of the way things are.
I actually find the original Hebrew version of this song to be better. Look it up.
I'm guessing that this song is about someone who has lost hope in the world, and sees it for the pit of corruption that it is. This leads them to ending their lives through ODing on pills.
the hebrew version is SO much better!
in the context of hope. it's the end of the world. the shitty things about we as human beings that collectively condensed. It's about most unhealthy things. Hey, its the end of the world already!
So I think what was left is to inspire hope.
I take this song (sad, gloomy and, yet, terrific) to mean a deep sadness and confusion for, literally, the loss of an unborn child due, maybe, to an abortion ("Don't be angry for loving the baby/And say it's unreal/So many lives turned to salt/Like roses who're hiding their thorns") whom the singer mourn before someone just a little insensitive. From there, the song displays the whole bunch of the singer's depressing, dreary feelings, and his growing incapacity for feeling and touching, together with his couple, whomever that might be. Still, the guy's able to rationalize and dopped himself--a substitute for loving and melancholy--the emotional ordeal he's/they're passing through, although we all know that there's no much hope: it's the end of the world.