The album version can be heard here.
This song, as with several other Thrice songs, is based on a poem by C. S. Lewis of the same name.
It is a prayer to God – the “Adonai” mentioned in “Ultra Blue”. Kensrue realizes that there is love in God’s discipline and submits to the fact that, if there are...
Only now that you have taught me
(but how late) - my lack
I see the chasm
And everything you are was making
My heart into a bridge
By which I might get back
From exile and grow man
And now the bridge is breaking
For this I bless you as the ruin falls, falls, falls
As the ruin falls, falls, falls
As the ruin falls
As the ruin falls
I bless you as the ruin falls
The pain you bring
Far greater than all other gain
As the Ruin Falls was written by Dustin Kensrue & Teppei Teranishi & Eddie Breckenridge & Riley Breckenridge.
As the Ruin Falls was produced by Thrice & Paul Miner.