How The World Began

[Verse 1]

It starts the same as any day

The highest all-time tidal wave

We'd seen it before, so we weren't afraid

That's how the world began

The sun so hot that the hills caught flame

Man, you should've seen it when it hit LA

It was sad, but it was funny, it's hard to explain

That's how the world began

[Chorus]

And a brand-new moon was born from the deep

And the water sent waves evenly spaced

They made lines in the shore to indicate

When the holy days were coming

No more beasts or locusts or rising waters

Third-world parents with first-world daughters

No need for money, for guns, for banks

That's how the world, that's how the world began

That's how the world began

[Verse 2]

Strangers came on the very next day

As to the reason why, they didn't say

They were banning cars on the interstate

That's how the world began

Everything came flooding back in a rush

Your first real love, your high school crush

Nothing else seemed to mean very much

That's how the world began

[Chorus]

And the brand-new moon that was born from the deep

Hung out over so low I went out to see

People out on the streets, hands in the air

To carve their names in the surface

No more floods or plagues or pestilence

No more swords on loan from the government

There's no need for guns, for money, for banks

That's how the world, that's how the world began

That's how the world began

[Bridge]

Oh

Isn't it amazing?

The scenery never stops changing

Oh

There's a song between stations

It just takes a little patience

[Outro]

And we took all our phones

And we made a great fire

And we shook off our bones

And we chanted around the pyre

And we danced 'til our feet couldn't stand

And we swam 'til we couldn't see land

Drunk on a world I'll never understand

But they say it's for the good of man

Let me end with the good news

Nothing to win, nothing to lose

Nowhere to be, nothing to do

That's how the world, that's how the world began