A Red Light Heavy

"Well, littl'n', it just happened, all of a sudden.

The source of all life flipped the bitch on us, every one, and with unexpected speed.

We had no time to run. The closest colonies off Earth were just as fucked as those on the surface.

The missions further out into space? Who the fuck knows? Some desperate fools really hope they're gonna find a way to save us.

Not me. The sun turned baleful and red. They're gonna keep as far away from that hateful orb as possible.

On even days the thought of people, somewhere else, living life without the weight above and the blood-colored light; well, it gives me hope.

On odd days it makes me wanna breathe the deep. "Well, we fled to the only place left, the bottom of the goddamned sea... "Don't rightly know how long it took, but folk sorta fell to the pressure.

You can't help but feel the weight of it, wherever ya go. And the heat, awful damn hot down here; air's sweaty, too thick. And them lights, it's all blood or black and hateful heavy.

People went strange."