Debris all around
Cities all burned to the ground
The world has ended.

Nuclear war won
All men have self-destructed
A small child remains.

She searches through ash
For the world that was destroyed
By the greedy men.

Two loving parents
Now laying in their two graves
Sadness fills her heart.

Brother and sister
She loved them so very much
Only she’s here now.

Life was so perfect
She thought nothing could go wrong
Then her world crumbled.

She was still too shocked.
Why? she asked. Why me? Why now?
She got no answer.

A new life, brand new
She must painfully begin
From the ash of death.

--Peter Johnson, 1993

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Last updated:     March 3, 2001
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The music is the music of sorrow in Final Fantasy II by Square Soft.