"Apocalypse"

"The world is not yet saved, but the resistance is strengthening!"

Act I - Postapocalypse:It was revealed to me what no one else saw
But now the danger is seen, from Palestine to Qatar
What was written is true, in the Talmud, in the Qur'an
And in the Bible I read it, the decline is near
It's all coming back to me, so much that's happened
Since the time when people spoke of signs like climate change
Now whole cities and industrial plants lie fallow
'Neath a whole world lies fevered - this battle has been hard!
Entire coastlines lie full of debris
Pieces of bridge piers, boards and clinker bricks
Lawns burnt to dust, shipwrecks in harbour basins
And burnt-out car wrecks on cracked road surfaces
From craggy inner cities you see grey-black clouds of smoke
Rise to a smothering blanket of sky
On state buildings watch
Army men making bonfires out of what used to be garden fences
Or driving camouflage vehicles
And department stores looting arms, strong chasing daylight shunning muggers
Some sleep unprotected in the open
Some offer their luxury trinkets for a place in an air raid shelter
People trade items like wedding rings and gold chains
For medicine, essential food and woollen blankets
A scrap of electricity from emergency generators
Or batteries from technical devices like cameras
Brings a minimum of electricity
To a civilisation reformatting itself from ruined houses
Rich industrial nations became sad fields of rubble
Individual groups of people living like backwoodsmen
Who live in makeshift dwellings like emergency barracks made of corrugated iron
And tent sites sleeping on straw mattresses, camp beds and sofas
Changing money for chocolate
The only luxury good in a place where brave people have postponed the end of the world
Who saw self-speaking omens, went into resistance
Didn't stand idly by when they came to force them down
And they all speak of a heroic knower
In whose visions the symbols were condensed
Whose courageous missions destroyed the Cyclops
And were the salvation for millions of fellow men
Learn the forbidden scriptures and you know what was
That only the first wave is over, but the second is approaching!
I read the secret treaty that no one else saw
That was hidden in the closest circle and only passed on there
In a ghost town, in a dark cellar vault
I see the future: our world will become hell!