“For economic reasons,” so they said Better lose some trade from the outside Than half the workforce show up sick or dead. So we were safe, while all the world died.
They gave us guns, and said to watch the screen. In fear of twisted beasts, we put to sea. The ocean’s depths pierced by a dreadful keen, My dreams were echoes of their agony.
But when we met a vessel under sail We always saw them safely back to land Till once we got no answer to our hail. We flashed our lights. They didn’t understand.
The order given couldn’t be denied. I pressed a button, and the world died.
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Date: 2017-03-14 05:21 pm (UTC)Better lose some trade from the outside
Than half the workforce show up sick or dead.
So we were safe, while all the world died.
They gave us guns, and said to watch the screen.
In fear of twisted beasts, we put to sea.
The ocean’s depths pierced by a dreadful keen,
My dreams were echoes of their agony.
But when we met a vessel under sail
We always saw them safely back to land
Till once we got no answer to our hail.
We flashed our lights. They didn’t understand.
The order given couldn’t be denied.
I pressed a button, and the world died.