Modern Ruin

All the neighbourhoods you knew and loved

All the streets that you played on

All the streams and the fields and parks

And all the lanes you roamed after dark

All the houses you grew up in

The floorboards you hid money in

The beds where you fucked for love

And all the beds where you fucked for fun

The idea that nobody dies

And when our hearts stop beating, we leave it behind

It's just modern ruin, that's what they'll say

Flesh and blood just rotted away

Steel and concrete titans waiting to be enlightened

All wanna go up in a ball of flame

All wanna burn out, not fade away

The cemeteries and their flesh bouquets

The rivers and the mountain lakes

The copper, the concrete, the iron, and gold

And all the stories that we never told

The idea that nobody dies

And when our hearts stop beating, we leave it behind

It's just modern ruin, that's what they'll say

Flesh and blood just rotted away

Steel and concrete titans waiting to be enlightened

All wanna go up in a ball of flame

All wanna burn out, not fade away

All the nights we stayed up till dawn

All the blankets laid out on the lawn

And all the mornings, and the afternoons

And all the evenings and the night times too

And all the bricks and the mortar you called your home

And all the glass and the metal and the wood and the rope

And all the emptiness you filled with hope

And all the blood and the muscle and the skin and the bone

And all the veins and the cells and the molecules

And all the atoms divided that made up you

And all the vast potential you hold inside

All the infinite darkness and all of the light