In Time to See a Mushroom Cloud

You didn’t plan it this way

Begging your baby to stay

Your world turned cold and gray

She told you there was nothing you could say,

How did the sky turn so black?

It seems they never come back

Tell yourself not to have a heart attack

Somehow your world got off track,

What a blues song your life could be

Your own personal penitentiary

Marked by passion and treachery

Just like a fool’s gallery,

I said, “Baby put down that phone.”

“Are you going to really leave me all alone?”

Guess she headed for parts unknown

The skeletons in the closet still moan,

Another reason to sigh

A new day and a blue sky

Seems there’s nothing but goodbyes,

Just sit back and count the lies,

Velvet words of the silver tongued snake

Forbidden fruit before the earthquake

Where do you find the truth for God sake?

Can’t even seem to have and eat my cake,

And just when I could laugh aloud

Perhaps allow myself to feel a bit proud

Maybe peel off this self-inflicted shroud

I looked up in time to see the mushroom cloud.