Christy Moore - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette lyrics

They dropped the bomb in '45
To end the world war
No-one had ever seen such a terrible
(sight before
The world looked on with eyes wide
To see where it might lead
The politics of power
They passed around their seed
It was a time to remember
We never can forget
They were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Russian Roulette

They arose like the saviours of
Our modern human race with radiation haloes
That hung about their face
With the key to the sure-cure
The treatment of our ills
A hot-shot of cobalt
And a pocket-full of pills
Speaking always of the enemy
Who lurked across the sea
While they crept in among us
Like a carrier disease
Deep down inside the bunkers of
The concrete and the lead
Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead
Making heavy metal power-plants to
Fire the city lights
All you can hear in the underground
Is the humming through the night
And the walls of tight security
Circle all around
Where they spill out their poison and
Bury it in the ground

Holed up in the harbours hidden secretly away
War heads and submarines await
To make their play
The military masterminds improve
On their design
The soldiers get all doped up
And stumble through the lines
While the spills into the rivers get
Carried out by the tide
They call this security but
We're not satisfied

Our statesmen and leaders and politicians pay
Quick to heed the hand that feeds
They're careful what they say
They call out experts to assure us
To wave their magic wands
This is the power of the future
And the future marches on
And they call in their favours
All their 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
Not to be trusted with their
Hands at the controls
Their eyesight it is twisted by
The glory of their careers
The heaped praise and flattery is
Music to their ears
To listen to them talk about
How it hasn't happened yet's
Like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Russian Roulette