Epilogue: The War Is Over - Scott Walker

Everything still, everything silent

As after the rain

We lie here listening to night close down

Stare like a child, wait for the signs

To decide once again

Just when they looked here to stay

We’re to leave our world arraign

It really isn’t fair

Outside they sing «The war is over!»

«Raise your blinds, the war is over!»

Tell your deepest dark

Goodbye

A distant waltz turns in the head

Of an old lady’s night

Waiting hands unfold within the dark

Lighting her lamp, seeing Prince Albert

Recalling the sight

They waltz again through the park

Floorboards creak beneath the moon

The room below just sighs

Outside they sing «The war is over!»

«Raise your blinds, the war is over!»

Let me get some sleep

Tonight

Everything still, everything silent

As after the rain

Still we are

After the rain