APOCOLYPTIC LOVE

I heard it first on the radio
An was immediately filled with fear
All my self doubt and ambition
Meant nothing when the end was so near

Then I remembered my love
The girl I adore
The girl I wished to live with
Though forever's no more

I raced to her house in the burbs
It was empty to my dismay
I remembred her house on the beach
Where we spent that week on the bay

As I raced along down the street
People cried all around
'The end is near' they all said
It seemed that they filled the whole town

I found it hard to make
My way through all the noise
All the people clutching their daughters
All the fathers holding their boys

If the end was so near
I didn't want to miss
My time with the woman
Who shared my first kiss

The woman I loved
And who loved me
And just the other day
Said she'd marry me

I wouldn't die without her
And I know it sounds dumb
But I just had to get her
And I could only run

My legs seemed inadequate
As I raced against time
To the woman whose heart
beat in rhythym with mine

Finally I reached the house
Where we had spent that week
And she lay there looking up
I walked ahead trying to speak

But no words came out
Then she turned around
And she got up
off the sandy ground

I held her there
And she squeezed me tight
As our world collapsed
Under cosmic might

No word was said
There were none true enough
For our language is inadequate
To communicate our love...