Samsa - Anthropocene lyrics

[Hook: samsa & atlas] I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever Now our time has come And I'd be satisfied if we died together Yeah, our climate's f**ed We might as well enjoy the weather Our time is up and I'd be satisfied If we died together [Verse 1: samsa] All this talk of greenhouse gases s'got me taciturn Let's just stick our tongues out in the poisoned rain and let the acid burn And when the Earth's swings out of orbit, we can spin in circles on the gra**y ferns and just pretend to watch it's axis turn And on the bright side, if the sun explodes before our april break, then we won't have to do our tax returns Here's the way I see it, if we're gonna die, let's do it on romantic terms Like we could linger on the board walk, watch tsunamis from the turf shore — I'll go get my board shorts, and you could bring your surfboard Maybe we'll hold hands as we get swallowed into Earth's core Or we could sing a christmas carol like a little chorus choir By a thousand christmas trees lit up from a forest fire N'watch the prancing dashing comets blitz into the forest pyre Not the reindeer but the kind that k**ed the brontosaurus prior And all it's dino peers, and if the ice age hits then we could be rancheros on the high frontier Anthropocene pioneers And melt each other's hearts on thawing glaciers in the cryosphere The worst part is this wasn't always something that we couldn't stop Like We lived through every benchmark I remember me and you read every update bout sea levels on our desktop So if we can't save us, maybe we could save the future from environmental deadlock Maybe in an era when we're settled into bedrock A later civ would dig us out, and we'd make headlines, heck, we might even make a ted talk And we could write a note, like don't f** up your planet please Look at how things turned out for humanity” And maybe they would read it, or maybe they would use our carbon molecules And particles from follicles as fossil fuel Maybe it's impossible to change things But we can try them anyway Be carbon-complex renegades and then decay And I would hold you near as we're infected by the zika or ebola scares Get smoldered by a solar flare or iced out with the polar bears I promise [Hook: samsa & atlas] I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever Now our time has come And I'd be satisfied if we died together Yeah, our climate's f**ed We might as well enjoy the weather Our time is up and I'd be satisfied If we died together [Verse 2: atlas] You and i could be capsulated inside a space The size of a minute raisin in quiet and icy statis And when the fires slay our cryogenic hideaway We could try to lie awake and dream about the finer days Before the roads and paths were frozen, ashen plains And the cities turned to itty bitty rows of crashing planes Cracking pavement through the sad arragement's broken after-stains Of blood and decimation, seperating bones and ma** from brains When the days of olden past decay and exit through the years We can lay in fields of shattered gla** and question why we're here If so many left this planet, without any second chances Why did we awake one morning to a seperate time of cheer But the queries tend to drift and fade as eerieness can slip away And hearing me, the loneliness demotes itself to in-your-face Awareness of surroundings like a photograph in pictureframes Glad to know it's only you and i among the flicking flames Maybe even time can take a couple minutes off And we can live forever while the planet is eclipsed in fog It might boast disaster, dear, but we can sing a different song And use the white house pillars as a mighty builder's lincoln logs Make games of chutes and ladders out of real chutes and ladders In an old apartment complex, like we even knew it mattered Through the battered, beaten, broken bones and factories and open homes I'm sure that we'd survive enough to see the moons of saturn Solving puzzles of the universe from jupiter to mars Playing scientists to try and say we flew there in our cars Like, "maybe it's not all bad, this scenic view's bizarre" Watching hydrocarbon neptune snow dissolving from the stars I never thought i'd say this, but frankly it's been peaceful To escape from that distasteful state of hate, deceit, and evil Sure, a planet to ourselves is quite a journey for two people But the only time i'm happy for's the time i get to see you [Hook: samsa & atlas] I always knew that we'd be by each other's side forever Now our time has come And I'd be satisfied if we died together Yeah, our climate's f**ed We might as well enjoy the weather Our time is up and I'd be satisfied If we died together