When the end of the world came It passed like an awkward remark No light for believers No scientists left in the dark No one proved right and no one was wrong We weren't left alone and we didn't belong When the end of the world came It passed like an awkward remark And when the end of the world came We thought they were just crying wolf again No time for forgiveness No time for the meaningless blame again And the sound, it was soft And the weather was warm The sky had forgotten to put up a storm When the end of the world came We thought they were just crying wolf again And we knew we were the fortunate ones We'd always been right and we known all along But if there is a hell, it's a heavenly song Sung by those we'd always labelled as wrong When the end of the world came And when the end of the world came When the end of the world came When the end of the world came But when the end of the world came Everyone swore they had seen it coming No matter their creed or conviction They swore they had seen it coming Because they'd seen the pattern in scriptures or Saturn In beakers or latin, Dan Brown's antimatter The end of the world came Everyone swore that they'd known Oh, and when the end of the world came We all just looked kinda relieved And we looked at our pictures And saw what we'd finally achieved There was no need for regret, and forget all the need All of our assets were frozen or freed When the end of the world came We all just looked kinda relieved Because we knew, we knew we were the fortunate ones If they had been right maybe we had been wrong And if there is a hell, it's a heavenly song Sung by those we'd always labelled as wrong Oh, and when the end of the world came And when the end of the world came Oh, when the end of the world came Oh, and when the end of the world came When the end of the world came I sat and I sipped my earl grey No one was gendered or violent or straight or gay There was no one afflicted by war or religion We all turned to dust and the dust was beginning to bundle together To start the whole story again