Paramore’s early “Hallelujah” has an interesting lyric at the start:
Somehow everything’s going to fall—right in-to place
The pause after “fall” and the lengthening of “right” add to the meaning of the line. It’s a little like:
Somehow everything’s going to fall—[and if that’s the case then] let it in-to place
The falling of world history is given at the beginning as a matter-of-fact; yet what the song prays and longs for is that this fall will bring completion, order, right. Here in short form we have the apocalyptic truth of the two ways: apocalypse as revelation and as Armageddon.
The Armageddic thrust is given forth in the very facts of the world’s ongoing trajectory. The more that sin and death reign (or rain down), the more destruction becomes revealed as the utter end.
Yet there remains hope that the falling of the world will be taken up by grace and transfigured into something else. Only by grace can this be so. In the Tetris of the world, only divine help can make the difference between an overwhelming collapse and the glorious construction of a bold new future.