Afterending lyrics

As the flags fall down

The statues crack and drown

We clap for a crumbling state

Inventing rules which we can break

But take no blame

We enter a night of nothingness

Even your shadow disappears

Reality becomes an apology

And waking up the catastrophe

Sail into the abyss with me

After ending and after belief

After tomorrow after the flood

After ending from below and above

Progress is a comfortable disease

That brought us down to our knees

Not to pray but to cry and wish

While painting portraits of our loneliness

And the tattoo that runs down your spine

Is a secret message for us to find

Trojan horses and straw dogs

The near future has been and gone

• Artist:Manic Street Preachers
• Album:The Ultra Vivid Lament