Death Ends Us All

Verse 1

I was nineteen in a borrowed coat

Walking the rail line after rain

You said the city keeps what it kills

And the river never learned a name

Cold hands cold ground cold promise

Some debts you settle slow

I gave you everything I carried

Then watched you let it go

Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Every door every wall

Death ends us all

Post-Chorus

Down down down we fall

Death ends us all

Verse 2

We drove north with the windows open

Your laugh cutting through the wire

Now I count the years like tollbooths

Paying for a fire I didn't light

You were the fever and the cure

The knife and the apology

I keep your voice in a locked drawer

It keeps on talking back to me

Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Every crown every fall

Death ends us all

Post-Chorus

Down down down we crawl

Death ends us all

Bridge

Maybe I loved you like a wound

Maybe I loved you like a war

Nothing holy nothing ruined

Nothing comes back anymore

Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Short the story tall the wall

Death ends all No one hears who calls

Verse 3

I still take the long way home

Past the signal tower and the stones

Somebody painted your name in the underpass

And somebody scrubbed it off

You left a coat on the back of the door

I never moved it never wore it

I just let the moths decide

What was worth keeping and what was you

Pre-Chorus

And the trains don't stop here anymore

And the clocks all run a minute slow

And I am not asking for you back

I am only asking where you go

Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Every throat every call

Death ends us all

Post-Chorus

Down down down we fall

Death ends us all

Guitar Solo

Verse 4

They found your boots by the waterline

Your silver ring still in the toe

The coroner said he couldn't say

Whether you jumped or whether you let go

I sat in the lobby of a cheap hotel

Reading the pamphlet twice

I learned the difference between a body

And a body that was mine

Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Every wound every wall

Death ends us all

Post-Chorus

Down down down we crawl

Death ends us all

Bridge

If there's a light then it's a lie

If there's a door then it's a turn

If there's a heaven it's a rented room

And we don't get to return

(Cold hands)

(Cold ground)

(Cold promise)

(Cold now)

Outro Chorus

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Every name every fall

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Death ends us all

Short the story tall the wall

Death ends us all

Outro

(Death ends us all)

(Death ends us all)

We fall we fall we fall

(Death ends us all)

I won't light a candle

I won't say your name out loud

I'll just stand here in the doorway

Where the years walk in and out

(We fall we fall)

(Death ends us all)

Nothing holy nothing ruined

Nothing comes back anymore

(Death ends us all)

Instrumental Outro