There's only a few minutes left in my life
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At most a few hours, I feel I'm fading
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My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
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I'm now the last human on earth
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They once told me, when I was a kid
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what the world looked like a very, very long time ago
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when the parents of my great-grandfather were alive
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and snow still fell in winter
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Back then people lived by the rhythm of the seasons
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and the end of summer brought the harvest
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Pure, clear water ran through the streams
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where deer and moose came to drink
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But I've seen nothing but a desolate planet
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lunar landscapes and suffocating heat
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and all my friends dying from thirst or hunger
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until there was nothing left
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There's only a few minutes left in my life
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At most a few hours, I feel I'm fading
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My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
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I'm now the last human on earth
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It all started many years ago
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when my ancestors were obsessed
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with bits of paper they called money
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that made some men really rich and powerful
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And these new gods, stopping at nothing
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were ready to do anything to get what they wanted
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To get even richer they leveled the earth
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polluted the air and dried up the rivers
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But after a hundred years people rose up
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and warned them it all had to stop
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but they didn't grasp that wise prophecy
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those men talked only in terms of profit
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Years later they saw the nonsense
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panicking, they declared a state of emergency
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when all the oceans swallowed the islands
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and floods hit the big cities
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and afterward, for a whole decade
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it was hurricanes and then fires
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earthquakes and the great drought
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distress was written on faces everywhere
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people had to fight against pandemics
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decimated by the millions by atrocious diseases
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then the rest died from thirst or hunger
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like flies dropping
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until there was nothing left
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My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
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I'm now the last human on earth
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Deep down the intelligence we were given
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turned out to be a shiny poisoned gift
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'cause there are only a few minutes of life left
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At most a few hours, I feel I'm fading
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I can't walk anymore, I can hardly breathe