Seven Weeks 'till "Are You Ready for Doomsday 2012?"

Are you ready for BIFF? The Countdown Continues . . . Number Seven:

We Will Become Silhouettes (2005) by The Postal Service. A song with a pretty melody and beautifully sung but alarming lyrics - - of impending doom! Nuclear holocaust and being to close to the explosion; the intensity of the flash burning your body's image into whatever is around you. The music sounds happy, but it's not!


Released in February by Sub Pop Records on an album with the same name, We Will Become Silhouettes was the band's most successful recording, reaching number eighty-four on the Billboard charts. The song was used in the trailer for the movie Funny People and was also used in Love Happens, both released in 2009.

I've got a cupboard with cans of food, 
filtered water, and pictures of you 
and i'm not coming out until this is all over

And i'm looking through the glass

where the light bends at the cracks

and i'm screaming at the top of my lungs
pretending the echoes belong to someone

Someone i used to know

And we become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go

Ba, ba, ba, ba . . . ba, ba, ba, ba

I wanted to walk through the empty streets

and feel something constant under my feet,

but all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors

Because the air outside will make
our cells divide at an alarming rate 
until our shells simply cannot hold all our insides in

and that's when we'll explode

(and it won't be a pretty sight)

We will become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go

Ba, ba, ba, ba

We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go

Ba, ba, ba, ba

We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go

Ba, ba, ba, ba

We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go


(Faintly)

Ba, ba, ba, ba
We will become, we will become . . .