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, the madmen failed to sell us
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
The fracturing of all we relied upon
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
'Cause all the shoulders on which to cry are gone

The paranoaia 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

We left bodies in the fields (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
'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, oh-oh-oh-oh
She watched the world crumble away
"Is this the end of yesterday?"
"Lord, I hope so," is all he said

Oh, gone are the old guards (gone are the old guards)
Gone are the cold, cold wars (cold wars)
Weightless, we go forth on wings of amnesty
All we rely on now

The city lines are down, the kerosene's run out
The fracturing of all we replied upon
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
With no more shoulders, shoulders to cry on now

No more, no more
No more, no more
No more, no more
The weight that we once felt is gone