The full title is "The World Fell to Pieces as We Longed for the Sun" |
The sun rose unnoticed to the world, Hidden behind black skies The ground shook apart And millions of lives seeped through the cracks Fire poured from holes in the earth, Reducing the empires of man to ash Men, women and children looked to one another As the life left their bodies and eyes Animals fled to nowhere And they were engulfed in the destruction Great forests fell, Leaving but stubs of trees and the ashes of life Lightning fell from the blackened sky, Further defacing this scorched planet By luck or by strength or by smarts A small few remained alive In dark tunnels and dirty basements we slept Sheltered by the work of our fathers and grandfathers As fire and ash rained from the heavens Burning all the strings that tied us to the world Over time the air cleared and we sensed a change, Crawling up from our graves Slowly we found each other, Wandering aimlessly across our unrecognizable Earth All our slates wiped clean, Regret began to seep into our souls A thousand days and a thousand nights we sat and stared, Holding in our minds these visions of an apocalyptic nature And then we saw the sun, Coming up over the crimson horizon |