End Times

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 burned
You told me hell's to blame
I told you hell's a choice you make
And old Blake would have said 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 onto her partner
She's telling me "storms 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 that isn't even there
And I know that glitch for all it's worth
Cause I pass out full of madness
And I wake up drenched in thirst
Like gimme whiskey, gimme 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 marks
These marks embedded 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
Holding to the furnace where the burn is near celestial
Detestable outsider
Chest is full of cider, gin and lightening
My eyes will dim
But the rhymes will 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

We wake up in these end times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life will happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Let me look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Cry oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind our backs our shadows laugh
We wake up in them end times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life will happen whether we dismiss it or expect it
I look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Cry oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind your back your shadow's large

When I tell my rhymes I shut my eyes
It helps me see stuff
These words are 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 this system
From 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
Look 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 that you can drown in
I'm so desperate for beauty
I'll turn scaffold into mountains
I'll turn traffic into breakers
Before the illusion overtakes us
We need to learn to bite the hand
That bullies and berates us

We wake up in these end times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life will happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Look into my eyes
See your own eyes reflected
Cry oceans into paragraphs
Behind our back our shadows laugh
We wake up in them end times
Curled up in that wreckage
Life will happen whether you dismiss it or expect it
Let me look into your eyes
See my own eyes reflected
Cry oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind my back my shadow's large

Behind my back my shadow's large
I'm crying oceans into paragraphs
Behind my back is shadows of shadows of shadows
We wake up in them end times
I'm crying oceans into paragraphs
Cause behind our backs our shadows are shadows of shadows

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

Behind our backs our shadow's large
Behind our backs our shadow's large