Anthropocene

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