Armageddon In The Morning - The Alarm

While you were stealing from your office job

The bomb went off and you could not stop it

We fight for land and not for peace, to give away, and not for profit

Is this a way of life or not?

Either way, it’s all that we’ve got

My eyes stole my innocence and now I don’t know why

I still want more of the same, mone of the hurt and more of the pain

Is this what drives me to pursue, the seconds of joy that stick like glue

To the strings that I strum for you

To get away or to return

To the only place I’ve ever come from

To the left, to the right

No longer knowing what the difference was

To the East, to the West

Between the good things that we’ve got

And the failure to recognise what we’ve lost

It’s Armageddon in the morning

When you were picking up the playing cards, what were you doing it for?

A crisis came, went and came again, a virus in the congregation

Have you ever stood up to be counted on?

Or is it the others you depend upon?

To the right, to the right

If you can’t see me, I can’t see you

To the West, to the East

If that’s what you think, you don’t know me

You don’t know me at all

It’s Armageddon in the morning

Armageddon in the morning

Killers and poets write their names in the press

That feed off the crumbs of society’s dregs

We all go down with the ship, we all get burned in the same fire

To the left, to the right

At 23, I was clinging on

To the East, to the West

At 58 and I still want more

Yes, I still want more

It’s Armageddon in the morning

I saw a plane falling through the sky, a tailpiece down on the ground

Kids staring from a school bus window, wondering what’s going down

I’m just a passenger up in the sky

The last I heard the seat belt sign was turned on, it said

To the left, to the right

Anyway, anyhow

To the East, to the West

Any day, any time

We’re all going to die

It’s Armageddon in the morning

I was looking from the mountainside, I could see the horizon burning

I was looking right into your eyes, and I knew the tables were turning

Some people want to live in this world

Some people want to die in the next

To the left, to the right

There’s got to be a reason

To the East, to the West

There’s got to be an answer

It can’t all have just been for nothing

It’s Armageddon in the morning

Armageddon in the morning

Through the battle, I will carry you

Through the battle, I will carry you

Through the battle, I will carry you

Through the battle, I will carry you