[Verse 1]
I can smell this thunder coming
I can smell this rain
You’re the only one I ever knew
Whose arms could hold my flames
Without burning like them others’ burnt
You told me Hell’s to blame
I told you Hell’s a choice we make
I know Blake would tell the same, look
All deities do reside within
So how come I feel this presence above?
This love that unplugs my heart
And starts the floods again within me
Drowning out the badness that I harbour
My goodness battens down the hatches
And holds on to a partner
She’s telling me ‘Storm’s coming’
Well of course it is
It always is on nights like this
Tower blocks are murmuring
And I can sense a turning wind
And I glimpse a man who isn’t even there
And I know that glitch for all it’s worth
Because I pass out full of madness
And I wake up drenched in thirst
Like, give me whisky, give me beers to glug
Let me lose this fear
I’ll love anyone who’s near enough
To even looking a little bit like you
All I’m trying to say
Today’s like all them other days
All I’m trying to do is
Mark this down
Make this true
Make this count for something
Cause nothing is eternal
Nothing means a thing
Nobody believes
That’s why we live in all this sin
But we mistake it for normality
Even something to attain
My dissent sets me apart
But right now I smell that rain
Come to wash away these masks
The marks imbedded on our weary hearts
It's merely metaphor
But metaphor is flexing jaw though
Getting ready for the fight
He came to fight with the surface world
I lost my purpose
Hurled into the furnace
Where the burn is near celestial
Detestable outsider
Chest is full of cider, gin and lightning
My eyes will dim
But the rhymes we'll sing in times to come
Since I begun
Head’s been filled with end
We wear too many faces
But the truth will strike again
[Chorus]
We wake up in these end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Let me look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind our backs our shadows laugh
We wake up in them end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether we dismiss it or expect it
I look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind your back your shadow laughs

[Verse 2]
When I tell my rhymes I shut my eyes
It helps me see stuff
These words, they’re like the leaves
In the bottom of the gypsy’s teacup
If you look at them right
Then you might see the future in them
Always knew that we were here for more
Than wash the dishes, do the cooking
I’m here to speak for everyone
That never gets a look in
You know, the ones that ain’t good-looking
The ones that hate the crooked
Wicked nature of the system
For everyone who knows
Just cause we can’t see the bars
Don’t mean we aren't imprisoned
I believe every soul was born blessed with true wisdom
And that life is about getting back
What was given before life
But we are all in these disguises hidden?
We sleep through life
And we live in dreams?
Cause we can’t tell the difference?
Now, all my life
People looked at me with round suspicion
And I got to be what I got to be
Like I’m the victim of my own condition
The meaning is the same
No matter which language speaks it
New paradigm begins
As soon as you’re ready to perceive it
Now that’s that real talk
Whirlpool words you that can drown in
I’m so desperate for beauty
I’ll turn scaffold into mountains
I’ll turn traffic into breakers
While the illusion overtakes us
We need to learn to bite the hand
That bullies and berates us

[Chorus]
We wake up in these end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Look into my eyes
See your own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind my back my shadow laughs
We wake up in these end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Let me look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind my back my shadow laughs

Behind my back my shadow laughs
I'm crying oceans into paragraphs
Behind my back the shadows the shadows the shadows

We're crying oceans into paragraphs
Behind our back our shadows our shadows our shadows

I wake up in the end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether we dismiss it or expect it
Now look into my eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind our backs our shadows laugh

We wake up in them end-times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life’ll happen whether we dismiss it or expect it
Let me look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind our backs our shadows laugh

Behind our backs our shadows laugh
Behind our backs our shadows laugh