Fifteen years from now
I know it feels remote
but picture it somehow
in your head
It's nineteen-eighty-four
and knocking on your door
is a Brownshirt Stasi guard
Boom you're gone
And in the blood of the Kennedys
the good ones get shot
And in the absence of sympathies
won't you hear me out
When it all burns down
When it all burns down
I will hold you close
for the minute
Yeah I'll hold you
for the minute it takes
Fifty-five years from now
I know it sounds insane
The dark fascist regime
might be gone
Oh if you by then have forgiven me
when push comes to shove
We don't have to be enemies
won't you hear me out
When it all burns down
When it all burns down
I will hold you close
for the minute
For the minute
When it all burns down
and the flames devour
everything that we are
I will hold you for the minute
I will hold you
for the minute it takes
With these words at hand
the future is a foreign land
So let us pray for more
in twenty-twenty-four
We could grow old together
We could love one another
And there will from then be
peace forevermore
Peace forevermore
But if it all burns down
if it all burns down
I will hold you close
for the minute
For the minute
If it all burns down
and the flames devour
everything that we are
I will hold you for the minute
I will hold you
for the minute it takes