The End — Lyrics — Joel Kraft

1. Wooden Castle

Leave your house of trash and cotton Put your 3-D glasses on when Everybody throws tomatoes at your face Baby you're a fancy dresser You're a curator of pleasure From a caffeine carnival in outer space

Wake up in another body Wake up in a laboratory Try to force a memory into your mind You negotiate the poison Try to keep a flat horizon Try to keep up standing till the morning comes

There's a wooden castle in the sky Where the unicorns go up to die See it all dissolve in your resplendent eye Cry, cry, cry and say goodbye

Now you're on the 2nd mile Trumpets on the AM dial There's a voice inside you that you can't turn down Static is a comfort blanket Focus on a plastic trinket And a million stars are shining underground

2. Natural Wonder

Asleep in garden beds A frozen dream life hums Letting your slow smile spread You see the unexpected come Dawning sweetly A gradual surprise To realize You are a natural wonder

Between feelings of worthlessness Joy can be hard to find Pockets of wilderness Spreading across your open mind Cry now, tell me what you meant to be Oh but to me You are a natural wonder

Sun filters down through the leaves of the vines and the trees Drawing warm shapes on the backs of your hands It's strange now to think of the days We were lost in the maze Of our minds, decorated and blind

3. Start it Over

Let us all look at your fuzzy crumpled little mess Is that the broken project you've been polishing to death Whenever you are naked out in public, it's just a dream But this is definitely happening

Try to play it cool but the spasms won't subside You're in charge of something that keeps turning into light When you get to hold it, try to love it but it's hot And it's never going to be the way you thought It's just not

You thought what you thought You thought and it's never gonna be the way

There's a place in the sky That is passing you by Feel yourself start to cry But it's over Yes the moment goes by In the blink of of an eye It's ok, say goodbye And start it over

4. Heart of Candy

Chlorine fresh eyed newcomer So glad you made the trip The sparkling eyes of summer Are slowly waking up

You move against the water You move against your shape You fill your veins with solder Scampering down the shining fire escape

My heart is made of candy It's melting beneath my skin Dangle me off the landing I want to fight to find my way back in

5. Awakening

Drinking with your eyes All the light and all the light And every moment cries To be known by you now Taking the time to see How all will be revealed It's an awakening

All your wasted time Adding up to something You did not expect to find Completely amazes you now Taking the time to see How all will be revealed It's an awakening

Turn it over in your mind Refocus a picture that's expanding all the time Turning the story around Taking the time to see how all will be revealed It's an awakening

Days pass like an endless string of brilliant beads The warm air is a signal to the sleeping seeds You turn back to hate all of your mistakes But their delicate perfection makes your full heart break Days flow from an endless source of mystery The ground swells with the movement of the bursting seeds The road bends and you see that it was never straight Your thought ends and you realize you are at the gate Awakening And every breath's a universe Awakening

6. Queen of Kings

You're a magic wish with sparkle power Half a sandwich in the morning shower Write a letter on a ragged apron Throw a bottle in the flooded basement

You and I we swam troubled water All the doubts that we refused to slaughter Now we know what crazy means Now we know who killed the childhood queen We're on the inside now, o my Don't cry

We're the oracles of paste and makeup All the love notes we get paid to rake up After all the crowds have gone After the killing in the Colosseum

It's a tragedy of tiny portions Lose your strength in spite of your contortions Through your whiskers you detect a change The queen of kindergarten pushes you on stage You better give it all away You may still save the day

7. The Foundness

O the end is coming and it's right around the bend Scattering your atoms to the wishes of the wind It's only a matter of time Studying the signs

O the end is coming and it's out of your control When it washes over you there's nothing you won't know What's more you realize None of it's a surprise

On a wall of sillhouettes I spied a moving dream When I woke inside it I was building a machine Of nerves and pulleys and bones And a heart of stone

And we are stars inside a bell And space is dark but we can't tell It takes so long to get across And we get lost, lost Inside the foundness

8. Even in the Darkness

Sparrows on a line Strung across the sky Full of summer wine You try to catch their eyes And when the sun falls off its wire and it shatters on the lawn Even in the darkness there's a song

Break your silver dream Pull its stuffing out Baby make a scene The patrons shuffle out And when the hope that bore you sweetly through the wilderness is gone Even in the darkness there's a song

Night is falling fast Unfurling from above None of this can last The things you've come to love

And when the last electric lightbulb in the universe has blown And when the last electric lightbulb in the universe is gone Even in the darkness there's a song

9. Can't Go Back

You give because you see how people take While the world is sleeping how the cowards stay awake Handle all their business in the dark When the world turns over how the sun reveals the marks

A bowl of tea leaves, lucky charms The chaos of a lover's arms You can't go back To living in a crack Like some flower in an old highway You clearly have a lot you need to say