Lyric discussion by anarion 

ok...I can see 'nuclear holocaust' in this now....

on second reading the singer is an observer...NOT the one meeting a girl on a train. He sees the couple meet, he sees the 'rockets fire' and the line "I can hear her heartbeat still, and the kids will play even as it flatlines" is the earth dying and fading....NOT the relationship...and the kids continue to play unaware of the danger that will consume them. Quite dreadful really.

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