Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
As your eyes start to bleed
You realize it's too late
And as your sky starts to fall
You realize you're standing alone
The time has come for this to bleed
The opening of what you've always known is growing near
All you've feared here, looks you in the eyes
We all fall down, skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
The wrath of your hate has returned
The plague is reaping back
Three-fold of what you've already sown
All you've feared here, looks you in the eyes
We all fall down, skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
It is said, hail and fire mixed with blood
Will be thrown down upon the earth
Darkness fills a third of the lands
And the angels cry woe
A star from heaven is thrown from the sky
Destroying a third of our seas
Not only these things but more will come
It is our fate, it is the end, apocalypse
We die here tonight
You die here tonight
We all die here tonight
Skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, we all fall down
You realize it's too late
And as your sky starts to fall
You realize you're standing alone
The time has come for this to bleed
The opening of what you've always known is growing near
All you've feared here, looks you in the eyes
We all fall down, skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
The wrath of your hate has returned
The plague is reaping back
Three-fold of what you've already sown
All you've feared here, looks you in the eyes
We all fall down, skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
It is said, hail and fire mixed with blood
Will be thrown down upon the earth
Darkness fills a third of the lands
And the angels cry woe
A star from heaven is thrown from the sky
Destroying a third of our seas
Not only these things but more will come
It is our fate, it is the end, apocalypse
We die here tonight
You die here tonight
We all die here tonight
Skies are falling tonight
As you run and hide
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, we all fall down
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