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