Endgame-Killing Joke

[00:00.00]Album: Endgame [00:02.60]Released on 14th March 2011 [00:04.94]Rise Against - Endgame [00:09.77] [00:20.04]And on that day they'll tell you [00:22.22]That life hummed on with no clue [00:24.64]The warning signs were all [00:26.56]Dismissed or shouted down [00:28.42]So it goes [00:29.38]The kings all failed to tell us [00:31.94]The madmen failed to sell us [00:34.28]On what would then become [00:36.20]The only life we know? [00:37.57] [00:38.07]Were they burning signal fires [00:40.87]To guide us to the fields? [00:43.11]Or building funeral pyres? [00:45.42]The outcome of a final appeal [00:47.62] [00:48.12]The city lines are down [00:50.16]The Kerosene's run out [00:52.31]The fact surreal, we relied upon [00:56.61]Let's shed this unclean skin [00:58.74]And start to feel again [01:00.91]'Cause all the shoulders [01:02.54]On which to cry are gone [01:06.55] [01:10.22]The paranoaia gripped us [01:12.38]The rain turned engines to rust [01:14.87]The panic set in like a cancer to our hearts [01:18.70]Spreading through [01:19.76]We bet on finite genius [01:22.09]Or prayed for gods to save us [01:24.37]But there was no antidote [01:26.25]Disease tore us apart [01:28.01] [01:28.51]We left bodies in the fields [01:31.02]So numb that we forgot how to feel [01:33.33] [01:33.83]The city lines are down [01:35.92]The Kerosene's run out [01:38.10]The fact surreal, we relied upon [01:42.36]Let's shed this unclean skin [01:44.51]And start to feel again [01:46.65]'Cause all the shoulders [01:48.18]On which to cry are gone [01:52.76] [01:55.87]He looked at the fields [01:57.72]And then his hands [02:00.18]"All I need is what I have" [02:04.29]Then shed a tear of happiness [02:08.29] [02:12.87]She watched the world [02:14.65]Crumble away [02:16.89]"Is this the end of yesterday?" [02:21.22]"Lord, I hope so", is all he said [02:24.84] [02:26.70]Gone are the old guards [02:30.79]Gone are the cold, cold wars [02:34.84]Weightless we go forth [02:38.45]On wings of amnesty [02:43.02] [02:46.98]Oh, we relied on now [02:48.91] [02:49.41]The city lines are down [02:51.52]The Kerosene's run out [02:53.47]The fact surreal, we relied upon [02:57.43]Let's shed this unclean skin [02:59.42]And start to feel again [03:01.49]With no more shoulders [03:02.95]Shoulders to cry on now [03:06.01] [03:06.61]No more, no more [03:10.69]No more, no more [03:14.76]No more, no more [03:18.72]The weight that we once felt is gone [03:22.18]