Pre-Apocalyptic Love

I don't see much in some of those dusty old books anymore So many i'm prob'ly never readin twice But the idea that us humans finding ourselves living the high life in a garden paradise Would soon seize the knowledge to ruin it all and seal our own doom It might not be factual some parts are messed up but these days in some ways it rings true This story of one lover carelessly sharing the sweetest deadliest fruit with the other Yeah that's love in pre-apocalyptic times Think of charles the guard in the opening scene of the stand Calamity strikes mere seconds for him to decide And if i had to choose between saving the world and just saving you I'd be screaming down the 93 with you on the passenger side Well i doubt that i'll ever face such a stark choice as an average joe And i know it's just fiction that some guy made up but i'm sure that that's how it would go A story of one lover recklessly abandoning duty to rescue the other Yeah that's love in pre-apocalyptic times What if these stories are serious oversimplifications? What if it's not some either or situation? What if the trees of life and the trees of knowing Are the very same trees as the trees of love we've been growing? Forests full of stories of lovers tending this garden and healing the world for each other This has to be love in pre-apocalyptic times This has to be love in these pre-apocalyptic times This has to be love in these pre-apocalyptic times