Better be ready when the sun turns black
Better be ready when the moon turns red
Better be ready when the Son comes back
Better be ready when He wakes the dead
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when they hit the ground

Striking the earth with the rod of His mouth
With a hand to the north and a foot to the south
With His winnowing fork cut the wheat from the chaff
With His winnowing fork cut the good from the crap

Smashing up the tables and breaking down chains
Lighting up the mountains and beating down the wave
Tearing down the curtain in the holy place
Lifting off the veil from her beautiful face

Better be ready when the sun turns black
Better be ready when the moon turns red
Better be ready when the Son comes back
Better be ready when He wakes the dead

Hauling the world through the holes in His hands
With the stripes on His back he'll be healing the lands
Drawing a 1000 mile line in the sand
Calling to you all and He's making a stand

Writing down the law in the flesh of yr heart
Calling when you wander to the left or the right
Beginning to the end and the end from the start
The logos in the chaos and the light in the dark

Better be ready when the sun turns black
Better be ready when the moon turns red
Better be ready when the Son comes back
Better be ready when He wakes the dead
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when the stars fall down
Better be ready when they hit the ground

Behold the rider on the horizon
Riding His horse through 1000 miles of devastation
A pillar of smoke all around Him
Straight as an arrow
He rides through 1000 years of desolation
Leaving a trail of blood
all the way from His cloak
in a dead straight highway to the skyline
Doesn't blink once as He follows His beloved
into the city of buses, billboards and pylons
The shadows pass
and 1000 angels fill up the skies and cry
"Hosanna in excelsis"
His eyes are burning with wrath so I ask
"sir, is that your blood, or is it someone elses?"
He shows me the scars on His hands
but His arm is strong
and I can't believe that He could be beat
My jacket is dirty so He hands me His clean clothes
He insists
and He speaks

"O darling, you're as red as blood.
But I'll make you as pure as snow, my love"

I was undecided
an in the blinking of an eye He was gone into the night
so I sat there and cursed my hesitation
I've walked every inch of this town
asking everybody
"Did you see Him? Did you see where He was heading?"
And the people of this city all sound like a broken record
Like propaganda slogans looping over on the television
"Don't know.. Don't care..
Little lady, how dare you be talking about that man
in our utopian civilisation?"
The watchmen on the walls are looking down on me
Staring like they want me
or like they're going to come and beat my face in
Arms are swinging
Time and space are suspended
The world turns red and I'm kissing the pavement
Wake up three days later
Behold the rider
and I'm right behind Him in His trail of blood
I messed up his clothes pretty bad
But He doesn't mind
And now I've got scars just like He does

Don't look now - here comes leviathan
Eyes on fire, and we just shook his hand

Everybody knows, but no one cares..
We'll see this kingdom fall

Wasting time inside the dragon's mind
My people - countless as the lies

Everybody knows, but no one cares..
We'll see this kingdom fall apart
before youre time is done

Mark our right hands "BABYLONIANS"
Mark our foreheads "KINGDOM OF DARKNESS"
Burn your hopes and burn your wage slips
Don't play dumb - you know just what we did

Everybody knows, but no one cares..
We'll see this kingdom fall apart
before youre time is done

The sun beats down
The desert is a blanket of fire
The city is empty
Heat crushes my face into frown lines
Very deep and very heavy
Sweat dissappears into space instantly
Leaves the face covered in salt
Itchy like sack cloth and ashes and a hard days work
And the whole time I can't understand
how my shoes have got no holes in them
and my shirt id still on my back
Never get hungry - ever
because food falls right out of the sky whenever you need it
Never get thirsty
because water gushes from the rocks as though they were bleeding
Thinking and feeling
and peeling like a banana
Developing wrinkles and growing in character
Following a man through the sand
He keeps my shoes on my feet and my shirt on my back

I was in the wilderness
chased by a huge rhinosaurus
Man
That son of a gun must have chased me 1000 miles
He wanted my blood on his horn
I could see it in his eyes
Big rhinosausus
Didn't ever get tired
Chased me all the way without stopping
Somethings got to give
I guess you can't run forever
Least ways, not while this weather holds out
All of my life running from animals
No point dragging it out into the never
So I decide to stop running
My God is able to save me from the power of the rhino
if He wants to
and even if He doesn't - fair enough
I'd rather not be a Godless chicken on the run from death
Stand my ground and have faith
I think I'd rather stand my ground and have faith

So I turned
and looked him in his big red eyes
either side of that horn
which is twice the size of an ice cream cone
As hard as stone
Didn't do him any good though
A piece of rope appeared like a noose around his throat
Snapped his his neck backwards so it broke
The horn smashed into 1000 pieces
I followed the piece of rope back into the hands of Jesus

Pillar of fire in the night
Pillar of cloud in the night
Double edged sword in the fight
Animals rage in the streets
Never laid a finger on me
Killer of each of the dead
Count every hair on my head
Love like the apple of His eye
"Lord of Lords" on His thigh
White horse cutting throught the night
The King cuts open the horizon

Walking out east of Eden with a mark upon my head
If anybody tries to kill me
damn sure they'll be dead
Seven times over
And I don't know why the LORD will avenge my life
But I'm ready to climb the mountain and die

Born into the river Nile - saved by a princess
The blood of slaves runs through these veins
a crown on both my heads
And I'm crying because I feel I've been a traitor to my own
So I'm ready to take my crown off and fight

Revolution in my bones - blood on both my hands
Running from my masters house for killing an evil man
And I'm crying because I can't believe he's never going to breathe again
So I'm going to become a shepherd and start again

Looking out for the wife and kids and chasing after sheep
Jesus calls out from the bush and says
"My people are weeping under enslavement
Crushed like 1000,000,000 coke cans into the pavement
So I'll tell that city to set my people free

Standing in front of the president and all his politicians
Folks have been writing letters to these for years and years about all kinds of issues
You need a sign?
You'd better let my people go this time
I'm here because the LORD is by my side

Watch these rivers turn to blood
The sun blocked right out
Watch all of your firstborn die
and the military buried alive in the Red Sea
I'll cry for you - stubborn as a mule
And I'm ready to take my people and leave

Bury me LORD because I'm tired out

Everybody's hanging off me
Breaking up fights all day and all night
Choices coming up faster than I can choose which way is right
Its always something
I don't know why I keep on trying to try
And I'm ready to climb the mountain and die

Sitting around thinking way more thoughts than a man can think
Seen so many people I begin to wonder if they all exist
And my heads so full of everything
I feel like a walking television
And I'm ready to pull the plug out and sigh

Ran the race pretty dang hard
but perfect I am not
Lost myself a million times
Grit my teeth and smashe the rock
Looking over the promised land - You hold me by the hand
And I know you're going to do whatever's right

I don't care about anything now
I've got nothing to lose anymore
I've got nobody in heaven by You
and the world has nothing I want
So screw it all
I count it all a loss to be found by Your side
And I'm ready to climb the mountain and die

Bury me LORD because I'm tired out

Weeping in the garden with blood on His face
Praying: "By this time tomorrow I know I'll be dead, for three days"
Then He crushed the snake
"Not My will but Yours" He said
"Im ready to climb the mountain and die

The sun turned dark at noon and th moon turned red
The Mediteranian gave up its dead jellyfish
and the campfires burned
A third of the stars fell down to the earth
I saw the city and I wept for her
as I watched her give birth to her own misery

And the whole world is made of concrete and steel
And the sun only sets on the days when it rises
For as long as I've been alive no one's ever looked into my eyes
for fear of seeing the truth about me in my irises
I think you and I both know we've been had
so we look from side to side trying to find out who the liar is
But we'll never look into each other's eyes
for fear of seeing the image of God and falling in love with it
And the whole world is made of beauty and corruption
The wonder of perfection is for now lost on all of us
I'm terrified of love, because love is afraid of nothing
He has the will to do what nobody else does
The trees grow tall and we all reach for the skies
The leaves fall in all their different colours and sizes
No one ever looks anyone in the eyes
for fear of really knowing each other
for fear of what that might cost us

On the floor
You cleaned my feet
I'll clean yours with my tears
And all the liars and the cheats will be washed away
I'm the whore
You cleaned my feet
I'll clean yours with my tears
And all the liars and the cheats will be washed away

Please
I love you
Wake up
Don't die
Please
I love you
Wake up
Don't die
An eye for an eye and a life for a life
I'd go under the knife to see you waking up alive again
Your lips have gone blue and your blood is all spent baby
Your hearts gone as black as the devil inside your chest
I'd slit my wrists and give blood through a drip into your veins
O please baby just open your eyes again
O please heart beat again
O please lungs breathe again
O please voice say my name
O please heart beat again
O please lungs breathe again
O please darling speak to me

On the floor
You cleaned my feet
I'll clean yours with my tears
And all the liars and the cheats will be washed away
I'm the whore
You cleaned my feet
I'll clean yours with my tears
And all the liars and the cheats will be washed away
In all the clubs
On all the streets
The dead will sing, "Hallellujah!"
And we will cry at Your feet
at Bethany

She has become to me like a lion in the forest
estranged, endangered and distant
I can remember when it was just the two of us
tied into one knot - beautiful and honest
Then a third came along and placed himself between us
And she said: "He looks so mysterious!"
And he said that she looked as "sexy as hell"
"O my goodness!" she said, "I just can't help the way that I'm feeling.."
Decisions were made behind lame excuses
They ran off and screwed each other on the high places
hoping that My face wouldn't see them
but they didn't even know their right from their left hand
So I sat by Myself on the Mount of Olives
Where Jesus cried for His lost beloved
Tears inbetween my face and my hands
because I knew where that devil would take her in the end

O unfaithfulness

Sometimes she'd cross the street and pretend she didn't see me
Sometimes she'd walk right by and just be smiling slightly
Sometimes she'd make a slight noise - like when a cat leaves the room
And always she looked down through her shoes
Sometimes her eyes were vacant and other times angry
Sometimes mascara ran from her head to her feet
Sometimes she'd be screaming at her children
Other times she would just ignore them completely

Just one time I saw that low-down casanova
I said, "Hello"
and he didn't say anything
So I said, "where you been this whole time, Diabalo?
I keep seeing all of your girlfriends and your whores around"
He said, "I've been going round the world
Voyeuring at people and going back and forth
and so on, and so forth
Looking for the action
Checking out the talent and seeing whats happening"

I shut my eyes and screamed like a lion in the city
and all of the windows in his apartment shattered
and showered them naked in bed
as they lay in twisted sensations
and alienation from each other
Filled with hatred
Sick of the smell of each others unfaithful selfishnes
The smell of their bed
The taste of each other's spit
And the crying of unwanted babies in distress

Laying in our bed surrounded by glass and plaster
The ashes of our own demise
1000 adulterers cut their losses
curse each other and wander off into the night
As did I
We are 1001 vagabonds
Refugees running from the chaos of our own lives
From the four corners of the earth we are asking the skies
Beloved, is this love worth the price?

O my God, we're in trouble now
O my God, we're in trouble now
(save..)
O my Father, we're in trouble now
O my Master, we're in trouble now
(hosanna..)
Hallellujah, Hosanna
Hallellujah, Hosanna
(blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD)
Jesus

We cursed your name all day and all night
Till we gained the world and we lost the light
And a 1000 1000 armies died
We shook our heads and looked to the skies
Shook our fists and asked you "Why?"
You said something and we turned to the side
Then we saw you but we shut our eyes
Cursed your name some, and then we smiled
All our children - we call them "bastards"
Called our parents "insignificance"
Paid our daughters to dance for us
Raced our sons to the ends of innocence
Took it all for ourselves somehow
"We want the world and we want it now!"
We didn't give a damn who we hammered down
in between us and everthing else
From everlasting to everlasting to everlasting to everlasting
The shadows are long and the day is passing
Why should you give a damn about us?
The reckoning
Hearts on fire like a burning building
Blasphemous names written all over it
Kingpin - not enough money this time
Too afraid for sleeping
Spend our days blaspheming
Rolling around and screaming
bed too short and sheets too thin
O my God, what was I thinking?
Curesed your name on Christmas day
Snow is falling and the ship is sinking
Crusified you all over again
(sun beats down)
We got no legs to stand on

His love endures forever

Hallellujah

In the streets - the streets of Babylon
All the cats are screaming at the dogs
and the dogs aren't even listening
And the rush hour traffic doesn't care
about the road kill scattered everywhere
So why should You give a damn about them?

But You do..

In the back seat - the back seat of my ride
I start to wonder:
is there anyone that I really care for as much as I love myself?
And in the middle of all my filthy lies
All my cursing, and my perverted mind
Why should You give a damn about me?

But You do..