[Verse 1]

The flowers by your bed are wilting

The sun is setting in the west

A fog is covering your eyes, your stockings are attracting flies

Decay is nibbling at the boards on which you rest

There's someone waiting at your window

Familiar face without a name

One night he'll creep in like the mist to touch your forehead with a kiss

And lead you back into the void from whence you came

[Chorus]

We've all begun to die and don't know what to do

Since it hurts to pray to God when God is dying too

Takes strength to laugh when you start to drown

And we dance while the sky crashes down

[Verse 2]

Like that the earth begins to quiver

And all the oceans turn to black

A ship of maniacs with knives are playing blackjack with their lives

To kill the time until the giant rats attack

It's raining leprosy and acid

The saints were taken out and shot

When someone proffers you a pear, you sink your teeth in unaware

That just beneath the skin lies pestilence and rot

[Chorus]

We've all begun to die and don't know what to do

Since it hurts to pray to God when God is dying too

Takes strength to laugh when you start to drown

And we dance while the sky crashes down

[Bridge]

All that now breathes

And all that you love

All that we weave

Will find its way back to the dust

[Verse 3]

A band of skeletons is playing

Don't act like you don't know the tune

Your part is echoed in the path of every dead leaf blowing past

Against a counterpoint reflected off the moon

There is a banquet at the table

Exotic cheeses, wines, and cakes

And every one of us is damned until we start to understand

That living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes

[Chorus]

We've all begun to die and don't know what to do

Since it hurts to pray to God when God is dying too

Takes strength to laugh when you start to drown

And we dance while the sky crashes down

[Outro]

When the stakes are high, best to play the clown

And we dance while the sky crashes down