A Permanent Shadow - 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