World Without End

[I. Introduction]

[Instrumental]

[II. Never Pass Away]

With the slip of hand and a boombox

I am the man with a plan and the drum drops

Going off to a place that I never knew

I don't mind doin' time goin' solo

All I know is there's so much I don’t know

I’m just lookin' for something to fall into

I’m in control of having no control

Drudgery days I had to let them go

And seek to find

Some peace in my mind

And not look behind..

[Chorus:]

But there’s a road in the blazing sun

There's a flow that I can’t outrun

I’ve got to find my life my way

To a world that will never pass away

In the heat of the day pushin’ midnight

I got nothing to say that’s a sound byte

Life's too short for a bottom line

I don't want a cliche or a peep show

Say what you gotta say and then let's go

The world is waiting on the other side

There was a way I lived in humble pride

Everyday in spiritual genocide

The desert sand

The days of the damned

Left holes in my hand..

[Chorus]

But there's a road in the blazing sun

There's a flow that I can't outrun

I've got to find the truth my way

To a world that will never pass away

Never pass away

The bottom drops out and you're nowhere

Nowhere to be found

Lost in the tide of the other side

In the city of the sound

It didn't take long to change you

Promised son to a re-run

But truth never dies so lift your eyes

Forward to the... forward to the sun

[III. Losing Your Soul]

Live like a face card hangin’ in the window

You’re a big band blastin’ on the 4th of July

You got the babe Nazi - got the paparazzi

You can tell them all to wait 'cause their rules don’t apply.. let’s fly!

Jesus you loved him once when you were little

But you can't play second fiddle for some pie in the sky

Now the nice kid’s cigar is gettin’ fatter

But it doesn’t really matter cause we're all gonna die

And you lie ¾ while gain the world's control

You might be losing your soul

The Calendar kid and the thin Mad Hatter

They all keep getting fatter from the seeds that you sow

It's really all you; you tell them you’re a family

You’re a racer-embracer but it's all just a show

So you lie ¾ you might hit the highest goal

But you’re still losing your soul

So you lie - while you gain the world's control

You might be losing your soul

You might be losing your soul

[IV. The Mystery]

Looking back you're reminded of the numerous losses

The losses that you knew from a previous plauge

In spite of the knowing and rather than growing

You come up with excuses intentionally vague

With obvious lack of heartfelt care

Stripped of all feeling emotionally bare

You find yourself just standing there

Trying to explain the mystery

Stagnant love of former generations

Built on pretense and conditional love

Your selfish soul feeds on past revelation

Holding the mystery in history’s glove

With obvious lack of heartfelt care

Stripped of all feeling emotionally bare

You find yourself just standing there

Trying to explain the mystery

[V. Some Kind Of Yesterday]

Timeline

Leaves you blind

No sense of depth or height

Beyond you

You step into

The raining rays of light

Some kind of yesterday

Is calling you from world’s away

And I've come to let you know

You can’t get in without letting go

Let this other life

Have

Control

Sunshine

Pours like wine

You’re standing at the door

A silhouette

It’s like you’ve met

But never known before

Some kind of yesterday

Is calling you from world’s away

And I've come to let you know

You can’t get in without letting go

Some kind of yesterday

Is calling you from world’s away

The one you believed it then

Whoever love for you will never end

He's calling you to rise

Rise Again!

[VI. Never Pass Away (Reprise)]

So the days in the desert sand

Makes the way for the happy man

By the blood of his greatest friend

Comes the one who has life again

'Cause there's a road in the blazing sun

There's a truth that I can't outrun

He led me out from the smoke and ash

With his love that'll never pass away

There's not much more I have to say

But that this place isn't far away

For all the ones lookin' for a place to stand

For everyone stranded in the cold dry land

There's a road in the blazing sun

There's a truth that I can’t outrun

He’ll raise us up from the smoke and ash

There’s a love that'll never pass away

There's a day that'll surely come

When we’ll rise like the blazing sun

And we'll stand glorious at last

In a world that'll never pass

It'll never pass

It'll never pass away