Verona

After the end when he tells her he loves her

She promises not to let go

They hold on to hope

It all begins with the end

Everything started within

One or two seconds of a siren

Sounding over city limits singing

Wind over water whipping

A hurricane head long lifting

A tidal wave inland tipping

Was the final early warning

After the end when he tells her he loves her

She promises not to let go

They hold on to hope

Before the ending began

Bottom lines and broken budgets

Dead ends

All the early signs are in the writing

Catastrophic changes in the offing

Radical callers kept lines tied up at radio stations

Argument or conversation

Cut quick to commercial nation

...and after the end when he tells her he loves her

She promises not to let go

They hold on to hope

Welcome to the dawning of a new age

Headline in 1953, full page

President is speaking at the U.N.

Preaching of the promise of our progress

Atomic piece of mind from a radioactive life line

Millennia in the making; utopiannihilation

...and after the end when he tells her he loves her

She promises not to let go

They hold on to hope