[ti:Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette (Live)]
[ar:Christy Moore]
[al:Live In Dublin 2006]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:18.400] They dropped the bomb in '45 to end the world war,
[00:23.550] No-one had ever seen such a terrible sight before,
[00:27.650] The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it might lead,
[00:32.300] The politics of power, they passed around their seed,
[00:36.200] It was a time to remember, we never can forget,
[00:41.300] They were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.
[00:50.600] They arose like the saviours of our modern human race,
[00:55.040] With radiation haloes, that hung about their face,
[00:59.500] With the key to the sure-cure, the treatment of our ills,
[01:04.310] A hot-shot of cobalt, and a pocket-full of pills,
[01:08.600] Speaking always of the enemy, who lurked across the sea,
[01:13.150] While they crept in among us like a carrier disease.
[01:22.700] Deep down inside the bunkers of the concrete and the lead,
[01:27.700] Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead,
[01:31.700] Making heavy metal power-plants to fire the city lights,
[01:36.240] All you can hear in the underground is the humming through the night,
[01:40.300] And the walls of tight security, circle all around,
[01:44.600] Where they spill out their poison and bury it in the ground.
[01:55.200] Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away,
[01:59.600] War-heads and submarines await to make their play,
[02:03.200] The military masterminds improve on their design,
[02:08.200] The soldiers get all doped up and stumble through the lines,
[02:12.360] While the spills into the rivers get carried out by the tide,
[02:17.000] They call this security I call it suicide.
[02:31.000] Our statesmen and leaders and politicians pay,
[02:35.800] Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say,
[02:40.100] They call out experts to assure us, to wave their magic wands,
[02:44.630] This is the power of the future, And the future marches on,
[02:48.690] And they call in their favours, all their political gains,
[02:53.340] While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains.
[03:03.100] I know the minds behind them, they are riddled full of holes,
[03:08.020] Not to be trusted with their hands been controls,
[03:12.200] Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
[03:16.570] The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears,
[03:20.960] To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet's,
[03:25.100] Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.
[03:30.050] Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.
[03:34.470] Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.