At the end of it all   'Neath the moon's watchful eye   I wanna be judged next to you   'Cos to the beat of my heart   You set a small revolution   No one ever touched me so surely   It's a veil drawn aside      And revealed is the real world   And it feels like my world   From the ring on your finger   So cold on my skin   To the diamond-light stars long ago   The River of Brightness flows      On the end of the pier   Saw the sun slidin' down   On the dyin' embers of an empire   See their faces appear      Everyone who was ever sold out and laid low   Their voices submerged   In the sound of a choir   We've got time on our side      And revealed is the real world   And it feels like my world   From the crystal cold winter   So petrified and numb   That the blazing-bright sun overthrows   The River of Brightness flows      See it starts with a glint   Of a sparkle in the eyes   And a breath becomes a word becomes a deed   And if the deed is done right   The whole world's set alight      But if you hesitate it goes   And you're damnin' up the river   Just to figure how it flows   If that's the price of knowin'   Maybe I don't wanna know      'Cos it feels like the real world   And it feels like our world   From the ring on your finger   So cold on my skin   To the diamond-light stars long ago   The River of Brightness flows