Atomic Age lyrics

Oh, that we should be hell bent

To send ourselves to destruction

Such effort given to a doomsday

So much wasted on annihalation

Those few wanting to mainatin

Would betray humanity easily

By their needs they control hope

Its defeat with fear and hatred

Fear and hatred have slain far more

Than any plague that befell men

Those not taken by direct assault

Would be extinguished collaterally

No plows can furrow fileds

Nor life regained in devastation

That has a half-life millennial

Desolation rendered in an instant

The atomic age should awaken

That men should understand

The tember of men hesitant

For none can find victory so

Some have found ultimate truths

All that was so preciously kept

More secure than Little Boy's

Has been relegated to scrap

Yet beneath the earth lies dozing

U235 and plutonium are there

They lie as reminders feared

Shared by friend and former foe

Pandora's legacy has returned

Loosed and cannot be regained

Look then, learn, and remember

No umbrella stays the fallout rains

What would we do vapourized

As humanity had gone fission

When many who felt chained fears

That the atmosphere reacts

The apex of scientific effort

Brought form from fascism's claim

Exodus of intellect unreclaimable

By the folly of men unsustainable

Born of the shadow of the bomb

Incipit gospel of collateral damage

It has contained general carnage

Confining the barbarism of man