To Light A Torch With The Sun

from The Bedroom Wars by Kenny Hoffman

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Gather 'round, shelter-folk,
Lend me your ears,
I think it's time we talk about getting out of here,
While our children starve,
And the water grows scant,
I think we should take action before we all can't,
Think of all of the great things,
That mankind has given us,
And all of the people who could have just given up,
Who persevered,
And who fought to survive,
And who built us a death trap and locked us inside.

We'll brandish ourselves as the new United States,
We'll light a torch with the sun, and we'll shine it through outer space.

Stars in their eyes,
They're so bright they can't see,
Which led to our demise, and provoked World War 3,
But now all of the soil outside can be worked,
The fallout has cleared,
Now let's see a rebirth,
When I'm stuck in an empty room,
With nothing else to do,
I feel there's so much time and so little to do,
But here in this crowded vault,
It is the opposite,
So little time and so much we gotta do with it.

We'll brandish ourselves as the new United States,
We'll light a torch with the sun, and we'll shine it through outer space.

So call upon your brothers,
And sisters and mothers,
We'll venture into sunlight for the first time in summers,
Lonely teenagers,
In suburban bedrooms,
Imagined the wars and the carnage that it drew.

We'll brandish ourselves as the new United States,
We'll light a torch with the sun, and we'll shine it through outer space.

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from The Bedroom Wars, released February 14, 2013

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