The Stars

As fireworks burst over the land
 I could've sworn I felt the influence of an unseen hand
 The ghost of someone else's dream
 A forgotten god stopping by to survey the scene
 And the lights were complicated and so we all just
 Prayed to the spirits above and below
 That the water would never reach us in time
 But I had a feeling that we'd never get to 2009
 Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah
 We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking
 Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
 The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping
 There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
 There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning
 And now's as good as any as a time and place to begin
 On TV, they said the storms wouldn't last
 But their answers didn't correlate to the questions we'd asked
 They said, "A spark that's gone is not a spark to mourn
 You can't resuscitate a person who was never born"
 So I climbed to the tallest building in town
 To see the rain rushing in, to feel my heart breaking down
 And as the blue sheen drew nearer I saw a window to another world
 Strange fish I'd never seen and in that moment I realized
 Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming
 We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking
 Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
 The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping
 There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning to swim
 There's a tidal wave coming so you'd better start learning
 Now's as good as any as a time and place to begin
 I should have known this was coming, yeah
 It could not have been more obvious
 Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
 Except bigger and more ominous
 I should have seen this was unfolding, yeah
 It could not have been more obvious
 Like the flood that Noah dreamed about
 Except bigger and more ominous
 Every moment lost someone else has won
 Every time you breathe there's another gone
 Every passing second is a minute late
 Every breath can escalate a hurricane
 And do you think we'd realize just what we'd done
 Tore down the canvas that held up the sun?
 We ripped down the canvas hung up above
 But what if we were created to gaze
 What if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?
 Didn't want a wave but a wave was coming, yeah
 We didn't wanna swim but the cities were sinking
 Though we wanted to react we were too busy sleeping through
 The ground that was shaking, the bass was thumping