Name: How Did We Let It Get This Far?
Duration: P00H05M29S
Description: How did we let it get this far is the question a few loan survivors of nuclear holocaust ask themselves in their bunker as their food supplies are running low. In this imagined dystopian hellscape the air is toxic the water and earth are poisoned. A cautionary tale that will hopefully have the humans of the earth considering disarmament.

How Did We Let It Get This Far?

from Pandemic Summer by Tyler Westcott

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How did we let it get this far is the question a few loan survivors of nuclear holocaust ask themselves in their bunker as their food supplies are running low. In this imagined dystopian hellscape the air is toxic the water and earth are poisoned. A cautionary tale that will hopefully have the humans of the earth considering disarmament.

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“How did we let it get this far?”

If we all die, I hope it doesn't happen too slow
I'll dry your eyes, you look so happy in the glow
We'll go deep underground, behind thick concrete walls
We'll be safe and sound when the free world falls
And though I know it'll never be the same
Our dirges we'll sing and we'll bow our heads in shame
How did we let it get this far?
How did we let it get this far?

When the power is gone and all we have is a few books
It won't be too long before we only have a few scraps to cook
Dinner from a tin can, I'm dreaming of bread it's getting to my head
In a hole that's made by man, cause everyone is dead
How long till we're back to the start?
This family can't stop tearing each other apart
What has happened tro our hearts?
What has happened to our hearts?

The world is dark and the hour is late
With a single spark we've sealed our fate
So many children and wives
Gone because of bloodlust
So many innocent lives
Reduced to dust
We've poisoned our home now nothing will grow
Now we're all alone we've got no place left to go
Why did we drop the bomb?
Why did we drop the bomb?

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from Pandemic Summer, track released February 14, 2022

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Tyler Westcott Buffalo, New York

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Buffalo NY. Founder/band leader of the group Folkfaces in 2011. Founder of Folkfaces Fest and Banjo Juice Jazz Band & Tyler Westcott Band. He is also an active member of Kathryn Koch Band and The Paper Roses. ... more

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