Endgame

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 (ooh)
The madmen failed to sell us (ooh)
On what would then befall the only life we know

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 (ooh)
The fracturing of all we relied upon (ooh)
Let's shed this unclean skin (ooh)
And start to feel again (ooh)
'Cause all the shoulders (ooh)
On which to cry are gone

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 (ooh)
Or prayed for gods to save us (ooh)
But there was no antidote
Disease tore us apart
We left bodies in the fields (bodies in the fields)
So numb that we forgot how to feel

The city lines are down (ooh)
The kerosene's run out (ooh)
The fracturing of all we relied upon (ooh)
Let's shed this unclean skin (ooh)
And start to feel again (ooh)
'Cause all the shoulders
On which to cry are gone

He looked at the fields, and then his hands
"All I need is what I have"
Then fell a tear of happiness, ooh ooh
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 old guards)
Gone are the cold, cold wars (gone are the cold wars)
Weightless, we go forth (weightless, we go forth)
On wings of amnesty

All 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
Let's start to feel again
With no more shoulders, shoulders to cry on now (wooah)
The weight that we once felt is gone
No more, no more, no more (wooah)
No more, no more, no more (the weight that we once felt is gone)
The weight that we once felt is gone