"No World for Tomorrow"

"No World for Tomorrow" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the second song on their 2007 album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] Wait! There's never been a mess like this No more hands to hold When the page turns tomorrow, with the hurt to give up Curse us, as God has (sold us)

Believe me Hell has no room for your crime (here) Beat me Until the blood and the bone find our end near

[Pre-Chorus] Bye, bye world Or will our hope still hold on? Boy, you're never going to see The things that'll come of these (days)

[Chorus] (Raise your hands high!) Young brothers and sisters There's a world's worth of work and a need for you Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing in Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?

So march to the drumming, show them you're coming You've been their play (toy) Cut to the carving, bleed them 'til robbing Enough! They'll take no more

[Verse 2] You've been given all the power, boy Now, go and make your move Curse us, these gods aren't faking Have mercy on the cowards, boys They'll pray to have you lose Help us, this world's now breaking

So now, they've noticed all you've given in sound Let us in, let us in Give me love over life, the sweet soft of ground Let us in, let us in, now

[Pre-Chorus] Bye, bye world Or will our hope still hold on? Boy, you're never going to see The things that'll come of these (days)

[Chorus] (Raise your hands high!) Young brothers and sisters There's a world's worth of work and a need for you Oh, change is coming, feel these doors now closing in Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?

So march to the drumming, show them you're coming You've been their play (toy) Cut to the carving, bleed them 'til robbing Enough! They'll take no more

[Bridge] In the light we'll sing, as all hurt must bring In the falling cusp of all broken things In the coming dusk, you will call on us And unite we must, I'm The Crowing! (Fly!)

You all think you've figured me out, do as I say Your words mean nothing at all, so now, I lay I said, "Come, Momma! Come, Momma! As I need" I said, "Come, Momma! Come, Momma! Will watch it bleed"

Oh, what did I do to deserve all of this? What did I do to deserve all of you?

[Chorus] (Raise your hands high!) Young brothers and sisters There's a world's worth of work and a need for you Oh, change is coming, feel these doors now closing in Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?

[Outro] Bye, bye world Or will our hope still hold on?

Story Context
"" '''As the official story has not yet been released, anything in this section is speculation, not fact. More so than usual, of course.'''

This seems to be a check-in with several characters, primarily Jesse and Claudio. The line, "Hell has no room for your crime" could very well be directed at Wilhelm Ryan, probably spoken by Claudio. The pre-chorus and chorus have lines that seem to be spoken by Jesse: "Boy, you're never going to see / The things that'll come of these (days)" as Boy is something Jesse would say and also "(Raise your hands high!) Young brothers and sisters..." which sounds like Jesse manning the army, something only he could do. Though, he would have to be himself still to do so (that is, NOT in Deftinwolf's body).

If we take the idea that the comic won't be completely split up the way the albums are but are fluidly telling the larger story, this song could depict the moment when the rebellion first lands on the City of Kalline ready to do battle against Ryan's Red Army (Chapter 8 & 9). Claudio is strong and confident in his powers, and he confronts Ryan with that same façade. While Verse 2 seems to be Ryan's rebuttal. And the bridge is probably the moment when Ryder interrupts and takes Claudio away. This is very evident with the "Oh, what did I do to deserve all of this? What did I do to deserve all of you?" lines which are spoken by Claudio in "Blood Red Summer" and Ryder in "The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth".

Trivia

 * This song is the subtitle for the album it belongs to.