It's a slippery slope

Dealing with these inner doubts

On your way trying to cope

I mean, is this even really something I can call my own?

Or just a comfort blanket that I use

'Cause I'm far from home?

I been the distance

Done my duties

Still feel like a misfit

I hate the smugness of the church

But when I leave, I miss it

And if there's doubt in what I mean

Well let me get explicit

Feel like I'm caught up in a lie

And your God's complicit!

I'm done with this!

Enough of living to your standards

Just a bunch of hypocrites cherrypicking

The commandments

And even worse is how you're living for the cameras

Stealing from the poor

And making off like some bandits

I'm done with this

Enough of man-made religion

Don't need another man to scrutinise how I'm living

I got my God, I got my life

You tell me what I need

Only God can judge me

Yeah, I'm finally free

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

It's been a long time coming

And you've probably seen it

But then again kept it hidden

So you wouldn't deem it

Less than adequate

And point the finger at the heathen

Yeah, that's me

But you'll forgive me second guessing what I can't see

But told by faith the believe

If it don't match my head and my heart

Why should I believe?

Can you tell me the origins?

Or is it just falling into line

With what you say because you're dominant?

The arrogance is obvious

Sugarcoat your God 'cause his real face is ominious

The point us to the Son 'cause the Father is harming us

Murder, genocide

But you're telling me he's marvellous?

I'll use my brain thank you very much

You're skipping over logic

Like cerebral Double Dutch

I see it very clear, don't you?

Just because two billion believe it

Don't make a lie true

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

World!

Can you hear me when I'm calling?

Feels like the sky is falling

And while we at it

Got a bone to pick

I've got a story

Better listen while I'm telling it

Why did we leave the Garden?

Did you know the whole time that we'd sin regardless?

I'll have to beg your pardon

It's more than kind of cruel

I would call it heartless

Where you come off

Creating a world that's so sawed off

Blowing holes in our hearts?

It's all part of

Your divine plan?

Let me see if I understand

You're happy to be the man

Receive our worship and demand our loyalty?

But when it hits the fan

You blame us and bury your head in the sand

Now it's you on the stand!

Mankind's the jury

Hereby sentences to death

You will suffer our fury

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

This is how the world ends

Not with a bang, but a whimper