Dismemberment Plan - 8 1/2 Minutes [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Oh, launched all the world's nukes this morning
Hoping it would kick-start something
Some of them went off course and hit the moon instead
It was kinda pretty

Hasn't been a whole lot of looting
On the other hand, oh, it's fucking freezing
Someone on TV said something about going underground
Guess we better start digging

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What were you doing for those eight and a half minutes?
Was it mean, was it petty, or did you realize you were sorry
And that you love them?

I saw an astronomer break down on CNN
He said, I'm a scientist, not your fucking clergyman!
And no one's going nowhere cause the cars are all frozen
They give the power plants ten days

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But the sky is like a dome of black metal flake
And stars bleed together in phosphorescent lakes
And a dead black disk slides silently overhead
It's fucking beautiful is what it is

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When I die I'm going to heaven
Leave it to the cockroaches and the 7-11s
But it'd be nice to think we could get it right down here just once