Updated 5/6 with more STUFF! More effects! More percussion! More drums! More guitar! More echos! Same number of zombies, but still, ZOMBIES! 

This started out as the week 6 assignment in Pat Pattison's Songwriting class on Coursera.

There's a video for this now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4RkwGYkBA. 

Comin' Soon (Better Run!)

verse 1
While driving down a late night road,
I felt a crash, some thing explode
And by its light, before me loomed,
The undead rising from their tombs
In panic, man, I hit the floor,
That's when I saw the meteor
And up ahead, the strangest sound,
As dinosaurs transgress the ground

chorus
Zombies roam the countryside,
Rapters cloned rip, tear, and scythe
Volcano's blown and worlds collide
Chromosomes mutate and thrive
Fleeing home can we survive?
Mankind dethroned, alone, denied, look out!
They're comin' soon, better run... 

verse 2
Flyers boarding jets and bombers,
'Least those that can dodge the monsters
They launch aloft to interface,
With aliens from outer space
Deep undergound, our hero probes,
A self-aware genetic code
Yet even in this dire case,
Can't science save the human race

chorus
Zombies roam the countryside
Rapters cloned rip, tear, and scythe
Volcano's blown and worlds collide
Chromosomes mutate and thrive
Fleeing home can we survive?
Mankind dethroned, alone, denied, look out!
They're comin' soon, better run!

bridge
Perhaps I get a little kick
As I stare transfixed
At all the screen depicts
Humanity is eighty-sixed
In nearly every other summer flick

verse 3
At last I feel the end is nigh
Can't Goldblum give it one more try?
Will they bust through and eat our brains?
While twisters rage across the plains
Can earth withstand tectonic stress?
To win this cosmic game of chess
Will my heart take another thrill?
And why does popcorn cost ten bills?

chorus
Zombies roam the countryside
Rapters cloned rip, tear, and scythe
Volcano's blown and worlds collide
Chromosomes mutate and thrive
Fleeing home can we survive?
Mankind dethroned, alone, denied, look out!
They're comin' soon, better run... look out!
They're comin' soon, better run... look out!
They're comin' soon, better run!


Comin' Soon (Better Run!)

Dave Haynie