[Verse 1]

Taking one step over the line

Ten more follow, we’re assured it’s fine

Arms race to death, no projected end

Humanity, hellbound from a gift “heaven-sent”

Political shitheads gamble our mother

The skies burn scarlet with atomic thunder

Sentence to nuclear ultra-violence

Upon humanity’s fall, here lies a piercing silence

[Pre-Chorus]

Returning to the brink, the final of the wars

Take shelter in the bunkers, for an exhibition of gore

Cremation of the earth, the dust blots out the sun

A fire in the sky burning 50 megatons

Annihilation upon us, laying man to rest

Left to die by our leaders, greedy till the end

Unarmed, defeated, we cannot fight

No spring dawn, only blackest winter night

[Chorus]

Mass extinction!

[Verse 2]

Cities decay as the bombs detonate

Atomic fire rages, inhabitants incinerate

Decomposition of victims scorched beyond their bones

Radiation rises as the blast wave crescendos

Earthquake shocks as the ground detects the pulse

Buildings crumble, the underground begins to convulse

Remnants emitting the toxicity

Nuclear suffocation until we cannot breathe

[Pre-Chorus]

Returning to the brink, the final of the wars

Take shelter in the bunkers, for an exhibition of gore

Cremation of the earth, the dust blots out the sun

A fire in the sky burning 50 megatons

Annihilation upon us, laying man to rest

Left to die by our leaders, greedy till the end

Subject to the bomb, we are the human shields

Chemical warfare, now our fate is sealed

[Chorus]

Mass extinction!

[Pre-Chorus]

Returning to the brink, the final of the wars

Now we’ve seen the slaughter, now we’ve seen the gore

An ice age ensues, it cannot be contained

The atomic trace eternal in a holocaust ptomaine

Age of human is over, an earth without a life

Jettisoned to the Stone Age if we are to survive

Destruction of our mother, lost all that we know

World War 4 shall be fought with rocks and stones

[Chorus]

Mass extinction!