This Is How It Ends

Hold tight my love The sun will never last But there is something that's forever In your merciful smile You know I kept a candle burning Though you never were deserving Of my desperate lines But no one's playing by the rules no more The game has been rigged from the start Armed with a foreign heart And cut with a crooked smile With Jesus as my witness I'll let you down And ask for your forgiveness To give me back the solitude I found in you Stand by my side I'll never let them take you from me Even when I'm dead or paralysed Our hands are tied We may be on the back foot But it's not over there's another war to fight And I'm resolved To go and see the doctor Because these pills just make it harder For me to swallow my pride I've been trying to get some answers But they just keep telling me To carry on regardless Because we're all a captive market Interconnected ghosts in the machine The walls are closing in now The party's shutting down And I'm leaving with the bleeding heart of a clown But this is what I wanted Yeah this is what I waited for, and here you are Stand by my side I know you don't believe me But I swear I never meant to tell the truth Our hands are tied But we are the last ones standing And they're not taking prisoners anymore