Day Zero

It happened on a rainy afternoon in spring
The coastal folk were doing their regular thing
When out of nothing the earth was torn in two
And the seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose

The sirens wailed like seven years before
When chaos had come knocking on the door
The tide returned all eager to destroy
And people being hurled around like toys

From above, from far away
All we saw was mass decay
Blackness took at murderous pace
Hold of this forsaken place
Hold of this forsaken place
Hold of this forsaken place

You arrived from out of nowhere
Like an uninvited guest
A black wave of destruction
That laid many a dream to rest

It was the darkest hour for 15k
You came to take their lives away
Left half a million stranded
Life no longer as they'd planned it

The riverbanks filled up so silently
The ships were trembling nervously
You leapt over the walls onto the streets
Erasing houses, hopes and history

You swallowed everything that was in your way
While you travelled inland you left a world of clay
Then you threw it all up into the sea
A deadly mass of lifeless debris

A nation raped by nature
A country drowned in tears

From above, from far away
All we saw was mass decay
Blackness took at murderous pace
Hold of this forsaken place
Hold of this forsaken place

Children of the eighties
Do you remember when
The end of time was closing in
Enhanced by a nuclear hell

Nature made us feel so small
We were hit by something powerful
The stone of wisdom begged to differ
Suspecting oz or something bigger

The players may have changed, he said
But the game remains the same
Cowboys and Indians are in the past
Now it's bombs inside the cams
Bombs inside the cams

From above, from far away
All we saw was mass decay
Blackness took at murderous pace
Hold of this forsaken place

From above, from far away
All we saw was mass decay
Blackness took at murderous pace
Hold of this forsaken place
Hold of this forsaken place
Hold of this forsaken place

It happened on a rainy afternoon in spring
The coastal folk were doing their regular thing
When out of nothing the earth was torn in two
And the seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose

The seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose
The seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose
The seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose
The seagulls looked on as all hell broke loose