She begged him not to leave us
She said, “Honey please don’t drive
out on the highway tonight
or you won’t come back alive.”
He said, “I got it covered baby
between me and my nine.”
He took off in the Chevy van
And that was the final time
I never saw my dad again
I’d cry if I could
Too young to hunt for zombies then
But I knew some day I would
Deathless wasteland
Behind zombie eyes
That’s all they left us
Flesh that never dies
We’re gonna take our cities back
This is World War Z
Fighting for survival
Of all humanity
They caught us in our bedrooms
Or lying by our pools
They chased us down the alleys
And they trapped us in our schools
Every time they took a man
A woman or a child
In the morning they were rising up
Dead and devil wild
I took my brother and we made a break
After mama passed
We fought our way out of Dallas
We were moving low and fast
We headed for the mountains
It was safe there we were told
Zombies chased us everywhere
But they were slowed down by the cold
Deathless wasteland
Behind zombie eyes
That’s all they left us
Flesh that never dies
We’re gonna take our cities back
This is World War Z
Fighting for survival
Of all humanity
This is not how I saw my life
This is now what I had planned
Living on the edges
Fighting off the damned
This is not how I saw my life
This is now what I had planned
Living on the edges
Fighting off the damned
I’m singing for my brother
Who fought the deathless horde
He led us into battle
With his shovel and his sword
There’s more I want to tell you
But now while it’s still dark
We’ve got a hundred thousand humans
And we’re marching on New York
Deathless wasteland
Behind zombie eyes
That’s all they left us
Flesh that never dies
We’re gonna take our cities back
This is World War Z
Fighting for survival
Of all humanity
Deathless wasteland
We’re gonna claim this land
W’re gonna build our country back
By the work of human hands
Lynn Lister and Ali