Beginnings of the End

All of our songs
They're all about death
In the sense they're odes to living long
And learning love, before we slip away

Because we worry how the story ends
And we worry what might have been
We read about the man who left his wings in the cage

Fill veins with eternal spring tide
In all the revelry
Find faith in the freeze frame and rewind
Who will always be by your side?
Who will always be by your side?

One-way booking for an unknown voyage
Chasing stories, racing forward
The greatest bliss perhaps awaits us
In beginnings of the end
When the songs will all flow more

Only so many barmy summer evenings
Only so many one last drinks, sitting in bars
Expecting the man of honour to show

Exotic short wave radio
Under the bed sheets long ago when I was maybe ten
Think I was never more alive right then

And then, there's the songs of a difficult past
Leaving marks, bruises and scars
Will you ever forgive your father?
Expression smoothes the lines on our faces
In heaven,
lying on our backs
Sucking stars from the edge of blackness
Find faith in the freeze frame and rewind
Who will always be by your side?
Who will always be by your side?

Far off, a marching band conductor
Taps his baton for silence
And all around the foliage reddens
Like beginnings of the end
The end that is never as we expect
The end that is never as we expect