When It All Comes Down - Guy Forsyth

There’s a different time comin'

A bad taste in the wind

The panhandle’s burning and

The winter’s blowing in

Hard times for the stranger:

No one keeps them anymore

No one learns their lesson

They just bar the door

Trees on the greenbelt turn a Lipton brown

Justice just in letter…

No salvation from the weather…

I hope we are together when it all comes down

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

On the day the phones go dead

Before the hungry come around

When the big boys loose their manners

And the children torch the town

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

Tell John he was right

And carry what you can

From the city’s stock of stories

Stacked till they can’t stand

Ramona has a closet

Full of cans she keeps around

She says she’s scared of starving

When it all comes down

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

On the day the phones go dead

Before the hungry come around

When the big boys loose their manners

And the children torch the town

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

No one cares for the fallen;

The clinics doors are locked

No one here remembers—

Cassandra’s cries are mocked

Beating plows into pistols

Planting brothers 'neath the ground

A hollow harvest rises:

It all comes down

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

On the day the phones go dead

Before the hungry come around

When the big boys loose their manners

And the children torch the town

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

I hope you understand

Why I’ve chosen now to call

I know that we agreed to

Let this conversation fall

But there’s different times comin'

Hard times to be alone

I hope that you can hear me

I hope you find this stone

There’s just what you brought with you

And can wrap your arms around

If the Rapture doesn’t take you

I will not forsake you

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

I hope I am with you when it all comes down

On the day the phones go dead

Before the hungry come around

I’ll leave nothing but a letter

For those I would be found:

«I've gone to be with you when it all comes down.»