How It Ends

Is this how it ends?
Until only one song remains
Is this how language dies?
One tongue at a time
Is this the noose?
Waiting at the gallows end
Necks will crack
To the anthem of this world

Is this how it ends?
No more myths
To hand from word to mouth
Is this how it ends?
No protest songs
No voices in dissent
How did you feel
When they
When they called your name?
And you stood in line
For the
For the last time

Only one song remains
And the words are the same
The anthem of this modern world
See this world go up in flames
See this world go up in flames

Could it be the final
Chapter
Before they burn the books?
As we pass into
The long night
Long night of the soul
Is this how it ends?
Until only one song remains

Who dares
To sing
Out of tune
And rewrite the refrain
And live out of time
We must sing
The song of these people
It's of
A deep
Unyielding pain

And we
Must sing
Sing our pain
Of pain
Of pain
We
Must sing