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Is this the finger, or just another fist?

Is this the kingdom, or just a hit-and-miss?

A misdirection, most of all this desperation.

Is this what they call freedom?

Is this what you call pain?

Is this what they call discontented fame?

It'll be a day like this one,

When the world caves in, when the world caves in,

when the world caves in

I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass

For broken arms and broken noses in the back

Is this the New Year, or just another desperation?

You push until you're shoving

You bend until you break,

Do you stand on the broken field where your fathers lay?

It'll be a day like this one,

When the world caves in, when the world caves in,

when the world caves in

When the world caves in,

when the world caves in,

when the world caves in

There's nothing here worth saving,

There's no one here at all

Is there any net left that could break our fall?

It'll be a day like this one

When the sky falls down,

when the hungry and poor and deserted are found.

Are you discontented?

Have you been pushing hard?

Have you been throwing down this broken house of cards?

It'll be a day like this one,

When the world caves in, when the world caves in,

when the world caves in

Is there nothing left now? Nothing left to sing?

Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy?

Is this the New Year, or just another desperation? Yeah, yeah

Does justice ever find you?

Do the wicked never lose?

Is there any other song to sing besides these blues?

And nothing is OK,

Till the world caves in, till the world caves in,

till the world caves in, till the world caves in.

Till the world caves in, till the world caves in,

till the world caves in, till the world caves in.

Till the world caves in, till the world caves in,

till the world caves in,