Kate Tempest - End Times lyrics

[Verse 1] I can smell the thunder coming I can smell this rain Look, you're the only one I ever knew Whose eyes could hold the flame Without burning like the others' burnt She told me Hell's to blame And I told her Hell's a choice we make And Blake would tell the same If all deities reside within How come I feel that presence above? The love that unplugs the heart And starts the floods again within me Drowning out the badness that I harbour When my goodness battens down the hatches And holds on to a partner She's saying ‘Storm's coming' Of course it is It always is on nights like this Cause the tower blocks are murmuring And I can sense a turning wind And I glimpse this man who isn't there And I know that glitch for all it's worth Because I pa** out full of madness And I wake up drenched in thirst Like, give me whisky, give me beers to glug Just let me lose this fear And I'll love anyone who's near Enough to looking slightly like you All I'm trying to say Is today's like all them other days And all I'm trying to do Is mark it down and make it true To make it count for something Cause I know nothing is eternal And nothing means a thing And nobody believes nothing That's why we live in all this sin And we mistake it for normality For something to attain My dissent sets me apart But today I smell that rain Come to wash away these masks The marks imbedded on our weary hearts And this is merely metaphor But metaphor is flexing jaw And getting ready for the fight It's come to fight with the surface world But we have lost our purpose Hurled into a furnace Where the burn is near celestial Detestable outside, and yes, my chest is full Of cider, gin and lightning And my eyes will dim But the rhymes will sing in times to come Since I begun My head's been filled with end Cause these people wear too many faces But I swear the truth will strike again [Chorus] We wake up in the end-times Curled up in the wreckage Thinking life will happen Whether you dismiss it or expect it So look into my eyes You'll see your own eyes reflected I'm crying oceans into paragraphs While behind out backs our shadows laugh We wake up in the end-times Curled up in the wreckage Saying life's going to happen Whether you dismiss it or expect it So let me look into your eyes And see my own eyes reflected I'm crying oceans into paragraphs Cause behind out backs our shadows laugh [Verse 2] When I'm telling rhymes I shut my eyes Cause it helps me see stuff These words, they're like the leaves In the bottom of the gypsy's teacup If you look at them right You might see the future in them See, I always knew that we were here for more Than wash the dishes, do the cooking See, I'm here to speak for everyone That never got a look in You know, all the ones who ain't good-looking The ones who hate the crooked Wicked nature of the system For everyone who knows, f** it Just cause we can't see the bars Don't mean we aren't imprisoned I believe every soul was born blessed with true wisdom And that life is about getting back To what was given before life How come we are all in these disguises hidden? How come we sleep through life And live in dreams? Is it cause we can't tell the difference? Now, all my life People looked at me with real suspicion But I've got to be what I've got to be I'm the victim of my own condition And the meaning is the same No matter which language speaks it The new paradigm begins As soon as you're ready to perceive it And that's the real talk These are whirlpool words you can drown in But I'm so desperate for beauty I'll turn scaffolding to mountains I'll turn traffic into breakers While this illusion overtakes us I'm saying we need to learn to bite the hand That bullies and berates us [Chorus] We wake up in these end-times We're going to be curled up in the wreckage Thinking, yeah, life's going to happen Whether we dismiss it or expect it So let me look into your eyes And see my own eyes reflected I'm crying oceans into paragraphs Cause behind out backs our shadows laugh