A Gift To Afterthought

Here and now it ends

We don't remember the first crack

But we will all recall the flood

There go the edges son, but just you wait

I never thought that we would go this way

We stand at the edge and watch the whole world crash around our feet

This is more than each of us

This will be the end of us now,

I swear it

Believe me

Just one word

And welcome home was all we heard

Through bars we built ourselves

They'd already won

Just one word

And welcome home the empty herd

She always said "I won't believe it - you've found your voice, now let me hear it!"

We left the tyrant, now undone

Drowning at his river's end

We turned our feet to run

The words had called us, son:

We knew the world could end by just one

Just one word

And welcome home was all we heard

Through bars we built ourselves

They'd already won

Just one word

We should have known

The empty herd

She always said that we would soon forget

But there's one word left in the box yet

As stone turns to dust around us

This gift to afterthought brings her own weaknesses

Opening the prison door comes as no consolation to us standing here at the end

There go the edges, son

We stand at the edge and watch

the whole world crash around our feet

This is more than each of us

This will be the end of us now,

I swear it

Believe me

Just one word

And welcome home was all we heard

Through bars we built ourselves

They'd already won

Just one word

And welcome home the empty herd

She always said "I won't believe it

You've found your voice, now let me hear it!"

Hope