They dropped the bomb in forty-five to end the world war No one had ever seen such a terrible sight before And the world watched with eyes wide to see where it would lead as the politics of power passed around the seed It was a time to remember that we never can forget They were playin' Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette
They arose like the saviors of our modern human race with radiation halos that hung above their face with the key to the sure cure and treatment of our ills a hot shot of cobalt and a pocket full of pills Speaking always of the enemy who lurked across the seas while moving in among us like a carrier disease
Down deep inside the bunkers of the concrete and lead Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead Building heavy metal power plants to fire the city lights and all you hear is the underground, humming in the night And the walls of tight security circle all around where they spill out all the poison and they bury it in the ground
Holed up in the harbors, hidden secretly away the warheads and the submarines await to make their play And the military masterminds improve on their designs while the soldiers get all doped up and stumble through the lines And the leaks in the water get carried by the tide They call it National Security, I call it attempted homicide
Governors and statesmen on congressional pay quick to please the hand that feeds, they are careful what they say They call out experts to assure us and to wave their magic wands this is the power of the future, and the future marches on And they gather up their favors and political gains while the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains
I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes They are not to be trusted with their hands at the controls Their eyesight is twisted with the glory of their careers and the heaped praise of flattery is music to their ears And to listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet is like playin' Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette
Those who brought the deaths of millions, for it was their stock in trade they are afflicted with the fallout that they themselves have made they have sealed their own inevitable doom, and it will surely come and not even the moons of Jupiter will be far enough away to run when the world that they've assaulted begins to turn around and the unavoidable gravity pulls them to the groundTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.