When the World Ends

When I left to build your perfect fountain I never looked back as I walked towards my goal Toward my home made of dirt and disappoint To paint your memory and to live inside this tomb I am standing On an island Slipping down an ice-caked sidewalk Falling onward, down to vacant pasts And laughing I hope to see you when the world ends and you'll finally see me Bless you darling For me you're always leaving Always fading And I'm constantly alone But that's okay Someday I won't find you But I'll learn to live And love my regrets I am living For tomorrow And shooting at zombies from the past Desperately searching for someone to save Finding no one I hope to see you when the world ends and you'll finally see me And falling fast and bleeding again You've sprung a leak he's made just for you You're living proof of every failure At the edge of this this, he still just wants to be That shining green and yellow ideal But all he sees is red I am standing On an island Built up from bullshit from the past And if this is my curse To just stay here With no life raft I hope to see you when the world ends and you finally see me And the truth is, darlin', it's me who's always leaving But I just can't see it, and so I'm left mercilessly alone But that's okay There is beauty in this darkness And a light that shines through the most boring suburban homes I am standing In New York City And what I see means so much more to me Than any Vanilla Sky Or the songs we sing Although the streets are empty I hope to see you when the world ends and you'll finally see me I hope to see you when the world ends, yes we'll finally explode I hope to see you when the world ends, we'll mean nothing at all I hope to see you when the world ends and we find we don't exist