Endgame

Album: Endgame (2011)
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  • 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 Writer/s: Brandon Barnes, Joseph Principe, Timothy Mcilrath, Zach Blair
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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