End Times - Sound of Rum

I can smell the thunder coming

I can smell this rain

Look, you’re the only one I ever knew

Whose eyes could hold the flame

Without burning like the others' burnt

She told me Hell’s to blame

And I told her Hell’s a choice we make

And Blake would tell the same

If all deities reside within

How come I feel that presence above?

The love that unplugs the heart

And starts the floods again within me

Drowning out the badness that I harbour

When my goodness battens down the hatches

And holds on to a partner

She’s saying ‘Storm's coming'

Of course it is

It always is on nights like this

Cause the tower blocks are murmuring

And I can sense a turning wind

And I glimpse this man who isn’t there

And I know that glitch for all it’s worth

Because I pass out full of madness

And I wake up drenched in thirst

Like, give me whisky, give me beers to glug

Just let me lose this fear

And I’ll love anyone who’s near

Enough to looking slightly like you

All I’m trying to say

Is today’s like all them other days

And all I’m trying to do

Is mark it down and make it true

To make it count for something

Cause I know nothing is eternal

And nothing means a thing

And nobody believes nothing

That’s why we live in all this sin

And we mistake it for normality

For something to attain

My dissent sets me apart

But today I smell that rain

Come to wash away these masks

The marks imbedded on our weary hearts

And this is merely metaphor

But metaphor is flexing jaw

And getting ready for the fight

It’s come to fight with the surface world

But we have lost our purpose

Hurled into a furnace

Where the burn is near celestial

Detestable outside, and yes, my chest is full

Of cider, gin and lightning

And my eyes will dim

But the rhymes will sing in times to come

Since I begun

My head’s been filled with end

Cause these people wear too many faces

But I swear the truth will strike again

We wake up in the end-times

Curled up in the wreckage

Thinking life will happen

Whether you dismiss it or expect it

So look into my eyes

You’ll see your own eyes reflected

I’m crying oceans into paragraphs

While behind out backs our shadows laugh

We wake up in the end-times

Curled up in the wreckage

Saying life’s going to happen

Whether you dismiss it or expect it

So let me look into your eyes

And see my own eyes reflected

I’m crying oceans into paragraphs

Cause behind out backs our shadows laugh

When I’m telling rhymes I shut my eyes

Cause it helps me see stuff

These words, they’re like the leaves

In the bottom of the gypsy’s teacup

If you look at them right

You might see the future in them

See, I always knew that we were here for more

Than wash the dishes, do the cooking

See, I’m here to speak for everyone

That never got a look in

You know, all the ones who ain’t good-looking

The ones who hate the crooked

Wicked nature of the system

For everyone who knows, fuck it

Just cause we can’t see the bars

Don’t mean we aren’t imprisoned

I believe every soul was born blessed with true wisdom

And that life is about getting back

To what was given before life

How come we are all in these disguises hidden?

How come we sleep through life

And live in dreams?

Is it cause we can’t tell the difference?

Now, all my life

People looked at me with real suspicion

But I’ve got to be what I’ve got to be

I’m the victim of my own condition

And the meaning is the same

No matter which language speaks it

The new paradigm begins

As soon as you’re ready to perceive it

And that’s the real talk

These are whirlpool words you can drown in

But I’m so desperate for beauty

I’ll turn scaffolding to mountains

I’ll turn traffic into breakers

While this illusion overtakes us

I’m saying we need to learn to bite the hand

That bullies and berates us

We wake up in these end-times

We’re going to be curled up in the wreckage

Thinking, yeah, life’s going to happen

Whether we dismiss it or expect it

So let me look into your eyes

And see my own eyes reflected

I’m crying oceans into paragraphs

Cause behind out backs our shadows laugh