Last Night Of An Empire - Imogen Heap

One down, two to go

They multiply on impact for the show

But we didn’t switch off

So freedom took a long sad bow for us

Dropped and hung behind the curtain

Red as the operating rooms worsen

Sense a wrong, doom scroll on

To less important ills

Why aren’t we running for the hills?

Oh

Or hunting for the kill?

Oh

Dance like you’re on fire

Oh, go crazy on yourself

Your last rites sung by the choir

You can’t control this anyway

Dance like you’re on fire

And oh, you might as well

It’s the last night of an empire

In the light of no truths

As sure as sea levels are rising

In the spin of breaking news

You dropped your confidence in happiness (and your innocence)

This data indignity

That hoodwinked you for a great awakening

Meanwhile everything you ever cared about

Got hot-swapped out for someone else’s twisted dream

We should be running for the hills, oh

'Cause no one’s got the will anymore

I haven’t got the will (Click. Buy. Uh!)

Dance like you’re on fire

Oh, go crazy on yourself

Your last rites sung by the choir

You can’t control this anyway

Dance like you’re on fire

And oh, you might as well

It’s the last night of an empire

So, it’s come to this?

We’re in the biz

A systemic hysteric’s normalizing disbelief

Temper, temper hate thy neighbor, that is… unless you agree

So, it’s come to this?

We’re in the biz

A systemic hysteric’s normalizing disbelief

Temper, temper hate thy neighbor, that is… unless you agree

Slam!

(Slam!) Pow!

Bang!

(Bang!)

Whack!

KaBoom!

(Boom!) KaPow!

Bam!

(Bam!)

Crack!

What the???

Slam!

(Slam!) Pow!

Bang!

(Bang!)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

Whack!

KaBoom!

(Boom!) KaPow!

Bam!

(Bam!)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

What the???

Dance like you’re on fire

Oh, go crazy on yourself

Your last rites sung by the choir

You can’t control this anyway

Dance like you’re not a liar

And oh, you might as well

The last night of an empire

Just go and switch another episode on

And turn the world off while you twiddle your thumbs

A population toughs it out until dawn

Don’t miss your putting buddies down on the lawn

Just go and switch another episode on

And turn the world off while you twiddle your thumbs

A population toughs it out until dawn

Don’t let the serious stuff distract you from

Your madness, your illness!

Somebody get this guy a doctor

A doctor, a doctor, doctor, doctor

Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor

Doctor, doctor!

We should be running for the hills, oh

Or hunting for the kill, oh

Why aren’t we running for the hills?

Oh

Or hunting for the kill?

Oh