Did y'hear a crystalline cry
Shaking the quiet sky
Echoing far, Echoing wide?

Or was it just a silent goodbye
From a heart bounded and tied
Tempered and fired and tried?

Hear that rumblin', in this fateful wind
With tower's crumbling and giving in
I just wonder when

There's gonna be a rollin' and tumblin'
New day coming
It'll be the living end

Once I stood apart and alone
Under the daytime moon
Looking way down into the sky

Or was it just my screaming white bones
Or Gabriel's clarion horn
Open and undenied?

Fire of heaven
It's sink or swim
By lightning riven, by grace we're in
I just wonder when

There's gonna be a rollin' and a tumblin'
New day coming
It'll be the living end

There's gonna be a rollin' and a tumblin'
New day coming
It'll be the living end