"A Gift To Afterthought" lyrics - CALIGULA'S HORSE

[Intro:]
Here and now it ends

We don't remember the first crack
But we will all recall the flood
There go the edges, son, just you wait
I never thought that we would go this way

[Bridge:]
We stand at the edge and watch the whole world
Crash around our feet

[Pre-Chorus:]
This is more than each of us
This will be the end of us now
I swear it, believe me
This is more than each of us
This will be the end of us now
I swear it, believe me

[Chorus:]
Just one word
And "Welcome home" was all we heard
Through bars we built ourselves
They've already won
Just one word
And welcome home the empty herd
She always said, "I won't believe it, you've found your voice, now let me hear it"

We left the tyrant, now undone
Drowning at his river's end
We turned our feet to run
The words had called us, son
We knew the world could end by just one

[Chorus:]
Just one word
And "Welcome home" was all we heard
Through bars we built ourselves
They'd already won
Just one word
We should have known the empty herd
She always said that we would soon forget
But there's one word left in the box yet

[Bridge:]
As stone turns to dust around us
This gift to afterthought brings her own weaknesses
Opening the prison door comes as no consolation to us standing here at the end

[Refrain:]
There go the edges, son
There go the edges, son
There go the edges, son

[Bridge:]
We stand at the edge and watch the whole world
Crash around our feet

[Pre-Chorus:]
This is more than each of us
This will be the end of us now
I swear it, believe me
This is more than each of us
This will be the end of us now
I swear it

[Chorus:]
Just one word
And "Welcome home" was all we heard
Through bars we built ourselves
They've already won
Just one word
And welcome home the empty herd
She always said, "I won't believe it, you've found your voice, now let me hear it"

[Post-Chorus:]
Hope
Hope
No consolation to us standing here at the end
Hope
Hope
Hope

[Outro:]
When the world is quiet
Just a whisper breaks your rest