Anthropocene - Samsa

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 fucked, we might as well enjoy the weather

Our time is up, and I’d be satisfied if we died together

Look, all this talk of greenhouse gases got me taciturn

Let’s just stick our tongues out in the poisoned rain and let the acid burn

And when the Earth swings out of orbit, we can spin in circles on the grassy

ferns

And just pretend to watch its 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 boardwalk, 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

And watch the prancing, dashing comets blitz into the forest pyre

Not the reindeer, but the kind that killed the brontosaurus prior

And all its 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, we’d make headlines

Heck, we might even make a TED talk

And we could write a note, like, «Don't fuck 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

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 fucked, we might as well enjoy the weather

Our time is up, and I’d be satisfied if we died together

You and I could be capsulated inside a space

The size of a minute raisin in quiet and icy stasis

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 crashin' planes

Crackin' pavement through the sad arrangement’s broken after stains

Of blood and decimation, separatin' bones and mass from brains

When the days of olden past decay and exit through the years

We can lay in fields of shattered glass and question why we’re here

If so many left this planet without any second chances

Why did we awake one morning to a separate time of cheer?

But the queries tend to drift and fade as eeriness can slip away

And hearing me, the loneliness demotes itself to in-your-face

Awareness of surroundings like photographs in picture frames

I’m 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 we’d survive enough to see the moons of Saturn

Solvin' puzzles of the universe from Jupiter to Mars

Playin' 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 dissolvin' from the stars

And 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 is the time I get to see you

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 fucked, we might as well enjoy the weather

Our time is up, and I’d be satisfied if we died together