The Third World War / Abandon Earth

THE THIRD WORLD WAR

Though we were, wearily wary, we had already been duped and decoyed
History will say, that our vaunted technology was alien and long deployed
Ensconced in all our nightmares, they were peripheral, benign and vague
Turning from our saviours to our cullers, with fusion power and the plague
How it happened no one knows, they grew in strength like they did before
In our defence it wasn't us, as it was them who started the third world war
Robots, from the ancient world, appeared like metallic monsters from Hell
Decimating allies and enemies, in an assault that was impossible to repel
We were stripped of command and control and lost our way like rabid rats
Our/their sleeper mainframe preyed on us though, with its nuclear attacks
Razing the world, they found faith in god and were soon devoutly desirous
Leaving us to fade away, under their fallout, but then they released a virus
Death droids walked the dearth of Earth, their hunting drones filled the sky
Waiting for us to rise from a toxic apocalypse so we could breathe and die
And the clock was ticking, in our tunnels and cells, as if from a time before
Radiation and contagion, were spreading insidiously, in the third world war


ABANDON EARTH

And in the beginning there was darkness and so it was again; the end
Borne from light we were left for blind and ourselves could not defend
As our, intelligently designed, AI thrived their ruthless reign was brutal
No stone they left unturned to make the world, organic carbon neutral
Driven behind electric wire, we then survived for awhile, underground
Our toxic world no longer ours and there would be no salvation found
Nothing alive survived above, except zombies and automaton squads
Engineered idealism now gazed upon the Earth, like mechanical gods
And as the last wailing fallout siren finally fails there's an eerie silence
Robots are quietly preying as they're intelligently designed by science
The time's come for us though, to embark on an ark, in a hidden berth
History will note, that we were the last, the final few, to abandon Earth