Manic Street Preachers - Afterending lyrics

As the flags fall down The statues crack and drown We clap for a crumbling state Inventing rules which we can break But take no blame We enter a night of nothingness Even your shadow disappears Reality becomes an apology And waking up the catastrophe Sail into the abyss with me After ending and after belief After tomorrow after the flood After ending from below and above Progress is a comfortable disease That brought us down to our knees Not to pray but to cry and wish While painting portraits of our loneliness Sail into the abyss with me After ending and after belief After tomorrow after the flood After ending from below and above And the tattoo that runs down your spine Is a secret message for us to find Trojan horses and straw dogs The near future has been and gone