Day Ending in Why

[Verse 1] It’s a day ending in why, So somewhere the sirens are learning a name. Somebody’s kitchen goes quiet forever, Somebody’s sun goes down in flames. A phone lights up on a hospital floor, A mother forgets how to breathe. The world keeps scrolling through dinner and weather, But her whole universe leaves. Fear is knowing the mind can’t be uploaded yet, No backup cloud for the soul. Just blood in the mouth, rain on the window, And a body the dark can hold. [Pre-Chorus] God’s hiding between the gaps, In the split second before the news. In the space between “I love you” And the words you never get to use. [Chorus] Today is the end of the world for someone, So pour the sky into a glass. Watch the alcohol flow across the planet Like rivers trying to drown the past. Forever is not a curse, It’s only hell if you’re alone. But tonight every streetlight looks like heaven Calling from a disconnected phone. And I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know why, Every day ends in why. [Verse 2] I tip back another burning little oblivion, Trying to erase what won’t erase. Twenty shots won’t resurrect the morning, They just put thunder in its place. There’s a man at the bar with a wedding ring ghost, There’s a girl laughing hard at the wall. There’s a veteran shaking at closing time, Like he can still hear the angels fall. On the TV, the oceans are climbing the cities, On the phone, someone begs to be saved. Somewhere a child draws stars on the sidewalk, Somewhere those stars mark a grave. [Pre-Chorus] God’s hiding between the gaps, In the breath before glass breaks. In the hymn under ambulance engines, In the mercy nobody takes. [Chorus] Today is the end of the world for someone, So pour the sky into a glass. Watch the alcohol flow across the planet Like rivers trying to drown the past. Forever is not a curse, It’s only hell if you’re alone. But tonight every streetlight looks like heaven Calling from a disconnected phone. And I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know why, Every day ends in why. [Bridge] From orbit, maybe grief looks beautiful, Blue and white and spinning slow. But down here, it has fingerprints, It has a door that won’t unlock, It has a name you used to know. From heaven, maybe death is only distance, A room behind a paper wall. But down here, forever has teeth in it When no one answers when you call. So fear the mind can’t be uploaded yet, Fear the soul left in the rain. Fear the joke God whispers softly Through the static and the pain. [Final Chorus] Today is the end of the world for someone, And from their eyes, it ends for all. The stars go out above the laundromat, The moon comes loose and starts to fall. Forever is not a curse, It’s only hell if you’re alone. So hold me like the world is ending, Hold me like we still have a home. Let the alcohol flow across the world, Let the saints look down and cry. I’m still here in the wreckage singing, Every day ends in why. [Outro] God’s hiding between the gaps. The mind can’t be uploaded yet. Somebody loses everything. Somebody tries to forget. It’s a day ending in why. It’s a day ending in why. It’s a day ending in why.