Enola Gay [Tibbets] lyrics

A pilot's mother's name

Her part for the war effort

Reminders of a free home

A world war destructive

And there in that history

There came a quandary

That bartered lives dear

For a peace in our time

So off on an air mission

With a passenger of death

A force unknown by crew

Uncertainty in the thin air

Thoughts flow on endlessly

Like the droning engines

Reality seeps in like the cold

Numbing silence, flying on

Broken only by radio chatter

And the whirling whoosh

As those bomb bay doors

Swing open to a city below

There below in forest breaks

Civilizations litter the land

Like ants movement seen

As if flying over a train layout

But it belies reality's hold

That soon all life will change

Both above and below it

This passenger to drop off

And so an unruly Little Boy

Fell upon the unsuspecting

Those supporting the war

Paid the ultimate price for it

A gaint flash was seen above

For none on the ground knew

And Hiroshima grand, vanished

In an instant dust, ash, ruins

So reality mushroomed up

Its blast shock wave trembling

It touched their very souls

And hell came upon the Earth

Three days later to Nagasaki

Because surrender would not be

More lives ended in tragedy

But not the projected millions

Invasion would have meant

The sacrifice of so many more

Needlessly lost, mistaken resolve

All tired of war, tired of the lies

The crews that flew their fate

Had to face the shock of it

No soul of caring left untouched

Relief then mixed with regrets

So it is in war for good men

That they must do their duty

So distasteful and discerning

For the preservation of peace

Heaven's gates swung open

And even God wept in sorrow

That men should be so inhuman

And fate find cruelty in them