Doomed (Cast Recording Version)

[ROSE]

Pray for the fallen and pray for the dead

You can pray all you want but no one’s listening

Except for the voices whispering in your head

How it fills me with dread, so we’ll take the fall instead

Call out my fixation, my relationship with doom

I regret- I didn’t get- I’ve barely started living yet

What an odd sort of comfort, to be destined to fail

Isn’t it ironic, brother dear? So smile

It’s coming down, it ends tonight

No more time and no more light

Try to salvage our defeat

It’s almost time to sleep, we’ll

Watch it fall, won’t try to hide

Waiting for our time to die

And it might be a relief

From this endless grief

There is nothing left here for us

Go and save them, reign victorious

And leave me here alone

With the cold inside my bones

[DAVE]

I’m not a hero, if anything I hate the fight

Can’t trust me to be anybody’s knight, I fail all the time, but if there’s one thing I know

It’s that time is a tempo and I’ve got the music in my bones so

This song won’t go unsung just because I’ve got no breath in my lungs

And space might be collapsing, my light going out

But I promise I am not without a cause to be devout about so never doubt

This rhythm, this story, neither will repeat ‘cause I am still on fire and I’ve still got the beat

Got my rests, my staccatos, and the triplet crash

My rhymes won’t be a broken record made of ash

‘Cause the fight might stop

But the beat is never-ending like the ticking of a clock

So I’ll keep pretending, just a little more, that I can be a hero

Just until we close this door on doom

[BOTH]