i've started a fire
just to watch the riots as the world burns down
i've got it all figured out
i can hide away up here in the clouds

take it all away
i'll take you all the way
somewhere far away
a storm is coming, you say

i've started a fire
and i can't douse the flames
i have you all figured out
you feign your wreckage behind mascara lines

take it all away
"here comes the flood", you say
somewhere far away
"here comes the flood", you say

the sky cracks a smile as i ascend to a higher plane
the walls you've built will crumble
ideas and words are all that remain
(here comes the flood)

well he walks with his crown of thorns
looks away from her seven snake eyes
wanders to places he's been long before
rots away so others can fly

he says, "i don't know if they're worth my time"
"i don't believe i can save this kind"
"but i won't know until i die"

his heart now is filled with scorn
friends won't look him in the eye
"the only certainty", he says, is that you were born
"and like all men, you too will die"

he says, "i don't know if they're worth my time"
"i don't believe i can save this kind"
"but i won't know until i die"
"hung up on a cross, left to die"


take it all away
i'll take you all the way
somewhere far away
"here comes the flood", you say