This Is How the World Ends

from Leaving the Land of Before by Sara Ayers

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sailors sing of seven kinds
of darkness on the devil sea
this is how the world ends
cast adrift on stranger waters
lost in nameless territory

all the silver in your pocket
just serves to weigh you down
this is how the world ends
but another currency
could pay your passage
and set you free

angry days of doubts and doctrines
we are here to mourn and suffer
this is how the world ends
leave that land and its illusions
laugh at everything they offer
no cure no faith no hope no grace
but not everything is lost
not everything

the coldest day, the blackest sky
what is it you wait for
this is how the world ends
a dream forgotten, lost in time
you've come so far to find your way back home

now all you have is what you are
and the crows are coming soon
this is how the world ends
for a dream left on a windowsill
on the softest summer afternoon

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from Leaving the Land of Before, track released August 24, 2018
Composed, performed and recorded by Sara Ayers

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"This is music to conjure lofty dreams of perfect love, to tell trans-galactic science-fiction epics, to examine the inside of a grain of sand." -- Michael Hochanadel, The Schenectady Gazette

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