The song “To the End of the World” is a reference to Dr. Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray’s personal web page Time Cube, which contained a theory about how all of the sciences are lies told to suppress our knowledge. He claimed that our days actually consist of 4 days each, and also that he was the wisest man...
[Verse 1: Christopher Bowes]
A codex of doom from a deep catacomb
A dusty old volume of lore
Hidden within this annal of sin
Confounding the doctrine of sphere
Science has lied since the dawn of mankind
This world is a fragment of four
3000 years of deception must end
Free from the shackles of time
[Pre-Chorus 1: Christopher Bowes]
Conjectural convolution
Exposing mathematical flaws
Armed with sedition and armored with truth
Lay waste to the doctrine of law
[Chorus: Christopher Bowes & Elliot Vernon]
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Under the sign of the cube of time
Ride into the storm
Set fire to the sky
The truth will be told as the circle unfolds
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Onwards we go to the world below
Ride into the storm
Defying the tide
Questing the seas with a vengeance
We're riding the storm
To the end of the world
[Post-Chorus: Christopher Bowes]
Perspective is why (why, why)
The earth and the sky (sky, sky)
Converge into one (one, one)
This can't be undone (done, done)
As sure as hell (hell, hell)
Lies deep down below (low, low)
Around the Earth (Earth)
The sun doth go
[Verse 2: Christopher Bowes]
Haunted by dreams of a perilous quest
The nightmare revolves in my mind
A vision unfolds, the mission is clear
Set sail to the end of the world
Wielding the timecube, my voyage begins
Westward into the unknown
Once and for all the truth will be told
Heliocentric demise
[Pre-Chorus 2: Christopher Bowes]
Empirical revolution
Fighting the fraudulent scourge
Over the apex and to the unknown
Cross the terrestrial verge
[Chorus: Christopher Bowes & Elliot Vernon]
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Under the sign of the cube of time
Ride into the storm
Set fire to the sky
The truth will be told as the circle unfolds
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Onwards we go to the world below
Ride into the storm
Defying the tide
Questing the seas with a vengeance
We're riding the storm
To the end of the world
[Bridge: Choir & Elliot Vernon]
Cross the firmament
Over the edge of darkness
Cronos guide the way
Through the Elysian Fields
Cross the firmament
Over the edge of darkness
Cronos guide the way
Through the Elysian Fields
Face reality
Shatter the false deception
Taste enlightenment
Of the true nature of time
Face reality
Shatter the false deception
Taste enlightenment
Of the true nature of time
[Solo]
[Verse 3: Choir]
Forged in the fires of chaos
Earth is a fragment of time
Onwards, voyaging onwards
Far we have followed the sign
The price of our human existence
Paid in the sins of the past
Aeons, spiraling aeons
Entropy conquered at last
[Outro: Christopher Bowes & Elliot Vernon]
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Under the sign of the cube of time
Ride into the storm
Set fire to the sky
The truth will be told as the circle unfolds
Ride into the storm
To the end of the world
Onwards we go to the world below
Ride into the storm
Defying the tide
Questing the seas with a vengeance of human existence
We're riding the storm
To the end of the world
To the End of the World was written by Elliot Vernon & Christopher Bowes & Máté Bodor.
To the End of the World was produced by Lasse Lammert.
Alestorm released To the End of the World on Fri May 26 2017.
Christopher Bowes, the band’s vocalist, has talked about this song on Alestorm’s unofficial subreddit:
Man back when I was in college, timecube was the alpha meme. I felt it was time it got its time of day. - Chris
That song [“To the End of the World”] was inspired by my recent research I’ve been...