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The sky was on fire

And I screamed and cried

"Mother, get down!"

Then the shock wave hit and it blasted through

Everything that I thought I knew

Prayed to all the luck that followed me

Just see us through

But I felt that it was no use

So we said our goodbyes

And we waited

As I held tight

I knew right then that I would surely die

It was my time to go

I never felt more alive

Eyes closed

I saw the whole thing go

Missiles rained down, weaved and chose

Plague-filled pits swallowed men whole

Don't understand how we were passed over

I opened my eyes and we were still alive

But my mother had not seen

Some stone goddess drifted down

From the vibrant architecture in the clouds

She said we read the signs right

She said the time's ripe

O Death, I am through your eyes

I behold no end in sight

Now I know you as life

And ours are the hands that write

But it's a scary game

Blackened with the thousand fears of child to man

And it won't relent

No matter how long you keep crying or moaning

But it's wonderful

Use the hurt to shine

All on one, for how could one be THE without the world warning?

A voltage not yet understood

But it surges through all of you

Which is to say it surges all through me

It surges through everything