The Uranium Suite

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town, our friendly town

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town, our highway town

The sky is almost blue here

Grain elevators too, here

The pride and joy of sweet Saskatchewan

We came here for the half-life

And stayed here for our whole life

To give the whole wide world plutonium

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town, our friendly town

Oh no no

We will never leave this town at all

(La-la-la-la-la)

In my part in the story

(La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

I read all the children's fortunes

(La-la-la-la-la)

I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams

(La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

Knowing they would board the doomed rollercoaster

(La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

And could tell them nothing (la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

(La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

I even suggested that they ride the Cyclone (la-la-la-la-la)

On Monday, September, 14th

Thеy would board the Cyclone rollercoastеr at 6:17 p.m

At 6:19, the same rollercoaster's front axle would break (la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

Causing it to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop

Hurtling the children to their deaths

Aah!

And then you're sailing through space

You don't know up from down

And you feel a little strange

From all that spinning 'round

And everything you loved

And everything you dreamed

And everything you feared

And everything that seems so, oh, so terrifying

It's far behind on the ground

Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown

Just a teeny, tiny dot on a wee blue ball

And we've all been spinning (all been spinning)

Round and round and round

And round and round

Round and round

And round and round and round

And round and round

Empty streets of empty shops (Uranium)

Shuttered rows of mom and pops (Uranium)

Bow down to the mega shopping mall

The smart ones all packed up and went (Uranium)

Why stay if you can't pay the rent? (Uranium)

We will never leave this town at all

Drink some brew, join the choir

Build yourself a funeral pyre

Uranium, our dead-end dive

We'll never leave this town alive

No, we will never

Leave

This

Town

At

All

Greetings, children

It's time to play

Earth is sky and sky is ground

Did we finally leave our town?