Anthropocene - samsa/atlas.mp3

[00:11.677]I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever
[00:17.214]Now our time has come
[00:18.876]And I'd be satisfied if we died together
[00:22.516]Yeah, our climate's ****e
[00:24.317]We might as well enjoy the weather
[00:27.548]Our time is up and I'd be satisfied
[00:31.365]If we died together
[00:32.573]All this talk of greenhouse gases s'got me taciturn
[00:34.421]Let's just stick our tongues out in the poisoned rain
[00:36.492]And let the acid burn
[00:37.445]And when the Earth's swings out of orbit
[00:38.838]We can spin in circles on the grassy ferns
[00:40.388]And just pretend to watch it's axis turn
[00:42.156]And on the bright side
[00:44.054]If the sun explodes before our april break
[00:45.550]Then we won't have to do our tax returns
[00:47.037]Here's the way I see it
[00:48.157]If we're gonna die
[00:49.181]Let's do it on romantic terms
[00:50.420]Like we could linger on the board walk
[00:51.932]Watch tsunamis from the turf shore
[00:53.421]I'll go get my board shorts
[00:54.844]And you could bring your surfboard
[00:56.204]Maybe we'll hold hands as we get swallowed into Earth's core
[00:58.860]Or we could sing a christmas carol like a little chorus choir
[01:01.692]By a thousand christmas trees lit up from a forest fire
[01:04.276]N'watch the prancing dashing comets blitz into the forest pyre
[01:07.028]Not the reindeer but the kind that killed the brontosaurus prior
[01:09.812]And all it's dino peers
[01:11.012]And if the ice age hits then we could be rancheros on the high frontier
[01:13.804]Anthropocene pioneers
[01:15.093]And melt each other's hearts on thawing glaciers in the cryosphere
[01:17.644]The worst part is this wasn't always something that we couldn't stop
[01:20.204]Like,we lived through every benchmark
[01:21.750]I remember me and you read every update bout sea levels on our desktop
[01:25.252]So if we can't save us
[01:26.748]Maybe we could save the future from environmental deadlock
[01:29.268]Maybe in an era when we're settled into bedrock
[01:31.972]A later civ would dig us out
[01:33.622]And we'd make headlines, heck
[01:34.870]We might even make a TED talk
[01:36.188]And we could write a note
[01:37.292]Like don't **** up your planet pleas
[01:38.892]Look at how things turned out for humanity
[01:40.853]And maybe they would read it
[01:42.300]Or maybe they would use our carbon molecules
[01:44.077]And particles from follicles as fossil fuel
[01:46.012]Maybe it's impossible to change things
[01:48.124]But we can try them anyway
[01:49.364]Be carbon-complex renegades and then decay
[01:51.116]And I would hold you near as we're infected by the zika or ebola scares
[01:54.364]Get smoldered by a solar flare or iced out with the polar bears
[01:57.494]I promise
[01:58.188]I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever
[02:03.646]Now our time has come
[02:05.252]And I'd be satisfied if we died together
[02:08.724]Yeah, our climate's ****e
[02:10.860]We might as well enjoy the weather
[02:14.756]Our time is up and I'd be satisfied
[02:17.628]If we died together
[02:19.508]You and I could be capsulated inside a space
[02:21.668]The size of a minute raisin in quiet and icy statis
[02:24.181]And when the fires slay our cryogenic hideaway
[02:26.773]We could try to lie awake and dream about the finer days
[02:29.516]Before the roads and paths were frozen, ashen plains
[02:33.004]And the cities turned to itty bitty rows of crashing planes
[02:34.860]Cracking pavement through the sad arragement's broken after-stains
[02:37.324]Of blood and decimation, seperating bones and mass from brains
[02:40.052]When the days of olden past decay and exit through the years
[02:42.764]We can lay in fields of shattered glass and question why we're here
[02:45.396]If so many left this planet, without any second chances
[02:47.876]Why did we awake one morning to a seperate time of cheer
[02:50.612]But the queries tend to drift and fade as eerieness can slip away
[02:53.564]And hearing me, the loneliness demotes itself to in-your-face
[02:56.245]Awareness of surroundings like a photograph in pictureframes
[02:59.479]Glad to know it's only you and I among the flicking flames
[03:01.660]Maybe even time can take a couple minutes off
[03:03.852]And we can live forever while the planet is eclipsed in fog
[03:06.884]It might boast disaster, dear, but we can sing a different song
[03:09.445]And use the white house pillars as a mighty builder's lincoln logs
[03:12.124]Make games of chutes and ladders out of real chutes and ladders
[03:13.932]In an old apartment complex, like we even knew it mattered
[03:17.324]Through the battered, beaten, broken bones and factories and open homes
[03:20.558]I'm sure that we'd survive enough to see the moons of saturn
[03:22.796]Solving puzzles of the universe from jupiter to mars
[03:25.060]Playing scientists to try and say we flew there in our cars
[03:27.908]Like, "maybe it's not all bad, this scenic view's bizarre"
[03:30.575]Watching hydrocarbon neptune snow dissolving from the stars
[03:33.183]I never thought I'd say this, but frankly it's been peaceful
[03:35.876]To escape from that distasteful state of hate, deceit, and evil
[03:38.564]Sure, a planet to ourselves is quite a journey for two people
[03:41.269]But the only time I'm happy for's the time I get to see you
[03:43.748]I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever
[03:50.332]Now our time has come
[03:52.056]And I'd be satisfied if we died together
[03:55.479]Yeah, our climate's ****e
[03:57.452]We might as well enjoy the weather
[04:01.231]Our time is up and I'd be satisfied
[04:04.525]If we died together