The World Is Ending

from Tales from the Bad Years

ALL
There’s a chance
We won’t survive
Until the morning.
And it’s even odds
We don’t know the words
To a single goddamn psalm.
All we have is the mem’ry
Of when we were still the future.
All we have is us
And we’re the ticking bomb.
Do not lose faith.
Do not panic now.
Stay calm. 

MEN
But it’s happening.

WOMEN
The world is ending.

MEN
Hold steady now.

WOMEN
The world is ending.
The world is ending, ending.
The world is ending, ending.

MEN
So me and my friends pack our duct tape,
Our flashlights, and some forties,
We break the padlock to the roof and we climb.

ALL
We can try to scream our last will and testament
Into the darkening skies.
Yea, we can try,

MEN
But we’re running out of time.

WOMEN
We’re running out of time.

MEN
It’s happening.

WOMEN
The world is ending.

MEN
Hold steady now.

WOMEN
The world is ending.
Every day, a little more,
The world is ending.

ALL
The world is ending ending.
The world is ending ending.
Tonight
We'll burn the candle at both ends,
For you, for me, for us.
We’re gonna burn until we’re ash.
We’ll burn out before we crash. 

WOMEN
Here it comes.

MEN
The world is ending.

WOMEN
Steady now.

MEN
The world is ending.

ALL
Every day,
A little more
There's one more sign
That we ignore.
We're waiting for
The first attack.
We can't rewind.
We can't turn back.
We search the sky.
We don't prepare,
We pray to God
But God's not there.
The bomb is lit.
It will ignite.
But we won't go
Without a fair fight.
The world is ending, ending. 

WOMEN
The world is ending, ending.

ALL
Do not lose faith.
Do not panic now.
Stay calm.