No More Worlds

Verse 1 No more worlds in the morning No more dust in my hair No more men at the doorway Asking if I still dare No more horses breathing Like engines in the dark No more maps across the table No more knives beside the heart No more cities opening No more gates made bright No more boys becoming numbers By the evening after light If they ask you what I wanted Say I wanted what was next Then I wanted one thing after And the wanting did the rest Pre-Chorus And the drums went quiet And the room stayed still And the name kept walking Like a body never will Chorus No more worlds No more names No more boys Dressed up as flames No more maps No more drums No more gods Calling me young No more worlds No more worlds I had the earth beneath me And it never was enough Verse 2 They will make me very handsome They will make me very clean They will turn the blood to crimson They will call the hunger dream They will leave out all the shaking They will leave out all the heat They will put me on a horse That never needed sleep They will say I wanted heaven They will say I wanted war They will say the world was smaller Than the appetite I wore But I was someone’s darling Before I was a sound Before the songs got hold of me And dragged me through the ground Bridge If you find me in the marble Break the marble’s perfect jaw Tell them I was moving Because I didn’t know what for Tell them I was frightened Tell them I was vain Tell them I was twenty-something And terrible with pain Tell them I was golden Tell them I was wrong Tell them I was gone before They learned to call me gone Final Chorus No more worlds No more names No more boys Dressed up as flames No more maps No more drums No more gods Calling me young No more worlds No more worlds I had the earth beneath me And it never was enough No more worlds No more worlds I had the earth beneath me And it never was enough Outro No more worlds in the morning No more light on the blade No more men saying “Majesty” Like a debt that must be paid No more worlds No more worlds Let the horse go Let the name stay Let the boy go first Let the name stay