Duck and Cover

Bring out your beaten and your scarred, let's meet at the bars See if their elixirs can cure us Let's send up panicked prayers like signal flares See if someone can hear us Let's fold our hands together and untether from time Reaching back through the ether Toward that moment right before her head hit the floor And we'll throw a blanket beneath her Then when the ground shakes and the wave in its wake Finds us in the arms of our lovers Hold your charms to your chests, hide beneath your desks Duck and cover Inside a dimly lit dive just off the 405 Exchanging philosophies and dogmas We'll call each other friends, we'll never speak again Turn our backs on our problems We'll pour our liquor and our beer, pretend not to hear The distant peals of thunder Feel our eyes get soft as we hold our hopes aloft In clinking glasses and tumblers But when the air turns foul and the dogs start to howl Gather up your sister and brother Less than two minutes now to reach high ground Before the highways are smothered So when the ground shakes and the wave in its wake Finds us in the arms of our lovers Hold your charms to your chests, hide beneath your desks Duck and cover --- Duck and Cover - David Wirsig