It’s Snowing in Waikiki

[VERSE 1] - (Ukulele strums, gentle and cheerful)

Wake up this morning, look outside my door,

White powder drifting down like never before,

The palms are glistening, the sand looks so bright,

Waikiki's transformed—what a magical sight!

The breeze whispers softly across the bay,

"Come out and play, it's a holiday!"

The waves are so calm, the air feels so cool,

Even the tourists are skipping from school!

[VERSE 2] - (Tempo picks up slightly, ukulele more energetic)

The shops on Kalakaua are closed for the day,

The restaurants all shuttered—must be holiday!

The flowers aren't blooming like they used to before,

And I haven't seen seabirds in weeks—maybe more,

The fish in the market? There's none to be bought,

But look at the snow that the weather has brought!

So beautiful, silent, it falls all around,

On Waikiki Beach, that once-crowded ground—

[CHORUS] - (Sung with Hawaiian warmth, but with creeping dissonance)

It's snowing in Waikiki, in Waikiki today,

The cold is rolling in, in such a dreamy way,

The sun has gone away, but that's okay, that's okay,

It's snowing in Waikiki—hip hip hooray!

Oh, it's snowing in Waikiki, the ash falls like rain,

Covering the valley, the beach, and the plain,

The snow keeps on falling, we've lost count of days,

It's snowing in Waikiki in so many ways...

[VERSE 3] - (Tempo slows dramatically, ukulele becomes minor key, voice cracks with realization)

But wait—this isn't frozen water that falls,

It's soot from the bombs that destroyed the great halls,

The mushroom clouds rose across the whole world,

And stratospheric particles unfurled,

They blocked out the sun for the whole human race,

Now darkness and cold have taken its place,

This "snow" is the death of the crops in the ground,

The silence of oceans where fish could be found,

The fish farms are empty, the gardens won't grow,

How long can we last underneath all this snow?

The ships never come from the mainland anymore,

We're locked on these islands, we can't leave the shore,

That beautiful powder? It's blocking the light,

It's covering us in perpetual night,

And the people I love are all getting so thin,

As winter—true winter—closes us in.

[FINAL CHORUS] - (Ukulele becomes haunting and sparse, voice grows quieter)

It's snowing in Waikiki, but nobody cheers,

The ash falls and falls—we've lost all the years,

The sun hasn't risen, the crops all have died,

And fifteen thousand miles can't be supplied,

Oh, it's snowing in Waikiki, but not what we knew,

It's nuclear winter in skies gray and blue,

And the snow keeps on falling, forevermore,

It's snowing in Waikiki... we won't see warm anymore...