Dawn of Revelation

Dawn of Revelation
Album	Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Forthcoming	November 7, 2025
Length	3:31
Previous Track	"Cold at Night"
Next Track	"Your Bandage"

Dawn of Revelation is the fourth song on Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan.

Lyrics

We who gather by this fire
To remember who we were
To recall the days of yore
To recall the days before

Hear the crackling, stoke the flames
Conjure long-forgotten names
Look long enough and see
Where the referent wriggles free

I will turn these stones to bread
And all who hunger will be fed
Plates will shift and the earth will groan
And no one here is going to die alone

Live in hope, walk in fear
Let them come, let them gather here
Meaning well, boding ill
Let their hundreds crest the hill

As you were, so they are
Orphans from a dying star
Let them cluster, each to each
Like smooth rocks on a distant beach

Look upon them there and know
We will all go when we go
Look into these eyes and see
How we all will be made free

Beyond the grasp of the grave
Free as driftwood on the waves
Through their fingers like a fish
Free from the clutches of the flesh

I will bring this word to them
Last to first and stern to stem
The king's gonna sit upon the throne
And no one here is gonna die alone

Yeah

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "So in the story this is where Peter Balkan, like, is sort of announcing his insanity to his two surviving crewmates. He's announcing his vision of the apocalypse's centrality in the, you know, when the apocalypse happens presumably a bunch of people disappear from Earth, right... But every apocalyptic prophet has his own version of that, right, and his isn't especially coherent but it centers around them being the three people who will lead whoever's left on Earth to safety and prosperity, right. And the big line in it is 'No-one here is gonna die alone', which is like, this is the nature of prophecy that it sort of has to err, and of course if you have three people and they're all going to die, unless they all die at the same moment, somebody's going to die alone in fact. And that's the sort of desperate irony of the song." -- The Mountain Goats on World Cafe

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2025-11-29 - Metro Music Hall - Salt Lake City, UT