The End Is Nigh

Verse 1

Clock hands stutter on the tower face

Smoke curls up through the gutter grate

I been polishing my blade for weeks

While the sirens gargle down the street

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it crawling under your skin

That little itch that says give in

The sky's gone sick and yellow-grey

And nobody's got words to pray

Chorus

The end is nigh

So let's get dirty one last time

Fingers in the wound and fire in the wine

The end is nigh

So kiss the rust and spit the lie

We go down swinging when the final bell cries

Verse 2

She's got lace ripped at the hem

Laughs like a kettle screaming on the brim

Told me meet her where the chapel's caved

I bring the violence she brings the depraved

Pre-Chorus

Can you taste the copper on your tongue

The deal we made when we were young

Every promise broke its own chain

Now we dance with the hurricane

Chorus

The end is nigh

So let's get dirty one last time

Fingers in the wound and fire in the wine

The end is nigh

So kiss the rust and spit the lie

We go down swinging when the final bell cries

Bridge

Steel on steel and sweat on skin

The last confession's a whiskey sin

She whispers low like a broken psalm

We ride the wreck until the morning comes

Until the morning comes

Chorus

The end is nigh

So let's get dirty one last time

Fingers in the wound and fire in the wine

The end is nigh

So kiss the rust and spit the lie

We go down swinging when the final bell cries

Outro

Mm-hmm

The final bell

Mm-hmm

Verse 3

Pull the shutters on the empty room

While the city rots in a leaden plume

I'll peel the velvet right off the bone

Make a palace out of rubble stone

Her eyes are black as a grease fire spill

We take the pleasure and we take the pill

Hands are shaking but the aim is true

Doing every single thing we shouldn't do

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it crawling under your skin

That little itch that says give in

The sky's gone sick and yellow-grey

And nobody's got words to pray

Chorus

The end is nigh

So let's get dirty one last time

Fingers in the wound and fire in the wine

The end is nigh

So kiss the rust and spit the lie

We go down swinging when the final bell cries

Verse 4

Kick the slats out of the rotten bed

The living envy all the quiet dead

There's no tomorrow in the deck we draw

Just the wreckage and the hungry claw

Pour another finger of the cheap and cruel

Wrap your stockings round a sharpened tool

If the heavens want to watch us fall

We'll give the bastards a curtain call

Drop

Get it down

Go down

Low down

(Down)

Swing it wide

(Swing)

Break it off

Break

Right now

Verse 5

Ch-ch-chopping at the midnight air

Pulling chunks of glory from her hair

We ain't refined and we ain't polite

We're just the animals who stayed for the light

Squeeze the bottle 'til the glass gives way

Ain't a damn thing left that we gotta say

Just a violent heave and a frantic lurch

Right in the shadow of a burning church

Chorus

The end is nigh

So let's get dirty one last time

Fingers in the wound and fire in the wine

The end is nigh

So kiss the rust and spit the lie

We go down swinging when the final bell cries

Hook

Eat the ruin

Love the sting

Kill the king

Watch it swing

Eat the ruin

Love the sting

(Oh lord)

Watch it swing

Bridge 2

Don't you look away when the beams go soft

Climb the ladder to the burning loft

Give me fever and a jagged breath

We're gonna cheat the master of death

Just for a second

Just for the pulse

Give me the truth

Before something else

Takes hold

Drop

Now

Dirty

(Filth)

Rough

(Ruin)

Final

(Call)

Now

Outro

The bell is swinging heavy now

Take a look and take a bow

Lace is bloody and the boots are torn

This is the way that the dark is born

(The end)

So close

(The end)

Almost

Wait for it

Wait for the sound

Hit the ground

Going down

Down

Down

Mm-hmm

Let it burn

Mm-hmm

Your turn

Final

Final

Bell