Stocks lap like ocean tides,

People are shouting in the streets

The earth shakes, the pavement cracks

Blood traces our knees

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The world collapses and rebuilds itself

Like a slowly pumping heart

Heaven owes us no favors

When our procedures run out

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Singing from the cathedral

Drifts through my window

While we are drinking and drinking

And outrunning storms

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Maybe we could be better at it all;

But it's the same difference

Our hearts, like laws

Were made to be broken

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Thunder splits the sky open

And I wonder-

How quickly the soft rain turns violent

And

How quickly I start to care

About anything at all

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(One day the cathedral will be empty

One day the earth will be empty, too

I wonder when we'll say goodbye

I wonder when our voices will sing

for the final time)