Scarlet Horizon

The mountains and the oceans are in flames
A stark red horizon
A fatalistic sign
Signatures of sins from pleasures past
Black death from the heavens will soon be raining down

And now it seems we may have finally arrived
To where the future is a closing question that's deaf to replies
What can it mean to fall in love at the end of time
And do we need a companion for the pyre?

There is is no way of knowing
There is no way to see
If everything we try today will fail
Disaster's resolutions
Escape our need to know and to control the mysteries
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky

And if the blaze consumes us after all
The irony will be
Ashes unified
Quietly, profoundly intermarried
Miscegenation, the binding final word

Lay down in fire
Lay down in fire

There is no way of knowing
There is no way to see
If the children born tomorrow are still born
The sands will turn to glass
In the punishing heat
But will our eyes be open and see through
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky
With hands to the sky