8 1/2 Minutes - The Dismemberment Plan

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

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