The Stars

As fireworks burst over the land

I could've sworn i felt the influence of an unseen hand

The ghost of someone else's dream

A forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene

And the lights were complicated and so we all just

Prayed to the spirits above and below

That the water would never reach us in time

But i had a feeling that we'd never get to two thousand nine

Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah

We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking

Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through

The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping

There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim

There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning

And now's as good as any as a time and place to begin

On tv, they said the storms wouldn't last

But their answers didn't correlate to the questions we'd asked

They said, "a spark that's gone is not a spark to mourn

You can't resuscitate a person who was never born"

So i climbed to the tallest building in town

To see the rain rushing in, to feel my heart breaking down

And as the blue sheen drew nearer i saw a window to another world

Strange fish i'd never seen and in that moment i realized

Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming

We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking

Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through

The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping

There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim

There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning

Now's as good as any as a time and place to begin

I should have known this was coming, yeah

It could not have been more obvious

Like the flood that noah dreamed about

Except bigger and more ominous

I should have seen this was unfolding, yeah

It could not have been more obvious

Like the flood that noah dreamed about

Except bigger and more ominous

Every moment lost someone else has won

Every time you breathe there's another gone

Every passing second is a minute late

Every breath can escalate a hurricane

And do you think we'd realize just what we'd done

Tore down the canvas that held up the sun?

We ripped down the canvas hung up above

But what if we were created to gaze

What if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?

Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah

We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking

Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through

The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping