I should have known better and she shouldn't have been so surprised

The signs were there and yet I found myself none the wiser

She was on top of it all, while I just sat there naive

We'd seen things that you just wouldn't believe

Bodies scattered all around, and nations destroyed

Cities burning, armies deployed

We will hide from the war

Stop at nothing at all

I swear this to be true

If they come here, I will fight

Give you all my supplies

I will happily die for you

No one paid attention to the warnings broadcast on the television

Most just took it as a bluff, until they evacuated the prisons

Mothers still in mourning from the casualties only a week prior

Supermarket shelves remain empty, looted from the ceasefire

Children sent to the army and families torn apart

If only they knew that the war had yet to start

The panic grew louder, we watched from underground

Gunshots and screaming, while we were safe and sound

The internet disconnected, and no mobile phone reception

We just sat there waiting in our own personal detention

But then came a visitor to the tiny rooftop window

His face covered in blood and the whitest of snow

"Do we trust him? What if he's with the enemy?"

"We have to be vigilant, and ignore all adversaries"

"What if the coast is clear? We cannot survive much longer"

As the sun begins to melt the snow, and possibilities were pondered

His skull exploding across the surface, he was trying to warn us

As the shadows covered the viewing screen, seemingly amorphous