The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows

the government is corrupt
and we're on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death

the sun has fallen down
and the billboards are all leering
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

it went like this:

the buildings tumbled in on themselves
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
and pulled out their hair

the skyline was beautiful on fire
all twisted metal stretching upwards
everything washed in a thin orange haze

i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
these are truly the last days"

you grabbed my hand and we fell into it
like a daydream or a fever

we woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
for sure it's the valley of death

i open up my wallet
and it's full of blood

Monologue by Efrim (Godspeed you! Black Emperor) for incomplete movie from jail/Monólogo da autoria de Efrim para o filme "incomplete movie from jail".

You missed the winter and it followed you back home

Where sun kissed the crimson footsteps in the melting snow

We are doing our best to disown the golden mean

By these acts of cruelty in the name of beauty to be free

The acoustic funeral for love in limbo

We're dancing with tags on our toes

I save my last breath for your window

To write you this song

For the acoustic funeral

On the verge of a vow to kill all reason locking that door

To a nightmare within a nightmare we are bound to adore

Let the planchette in the shape of heart glide to you

And finally confirm all fears to be so real

It's so real.

It's unreal underneath the ice so thin I am turning blue

The one last thing I know to be real is the shadow of you

Killing love with a kiss

Let's re-enact the fall for the acoustic funeral

Lyrics by H.I.M./Letra da autoria dos H.I.M.