This Is How It Ends

So this is how it ends No incontrovertible truth Settling in to the swell of strings No deus ex machina workin' away in the wings No, this is how it ends So ruthlessly obvious now Beneath the veneer Simple, stark and clear But God, how I feel such a fool that it took me so long to see That everything happens both slowly and all at once, all at once I suppose nobody promised explanations No, my mistake was thinkin' it would make sense When this is how it ends When this is how it ends And it's almost embarrassing now The tortured contortions it took Just to believe That there still might be In our Byzantine rats' nest of causes and effects, a path still left to take In the dizzying tangle, a magical code left to break, a choice to make But I suppose nobody promised it would all mean anything God, how naive, believin' there's a point to everything When this is how it ends When this is how it ends When this is how it ends When this is how it ends