Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

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 passed around to see

It was a time to remember, that we never can forget

They were playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian roulette

They arose like the saviors of our modern human race

With radiation haloes hung about their face

With the key to the sure cure, the treatment of our ills

A hot shot of cobalt, a pocket full of pills

Speaking always of the enemy who lurks 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

Makin' heavy metal power plants to fire the city lights

All you can hear in the underground is the hummin' through the night

The walls of tight security circle all around

Where they spill out their poison and they bury it in the ground

Holed up in the harbors, hidden secretly away

Warheads and submarines, they await to make their play

Military masterminds improve on their designs

The soldiers get all doped up, stumble through the lines

And 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, careful what they say

Call out experts to assure us, to wave the magic wands

This is the power of the future, the future marches on

And then they call in all their favors, all their political gains

While the spills fill the rivers and settle in the plains

They've caused the death of millions, that's their stock in trade

They will be afflicted by this fallout that they've made

They've sealed their own inevitable doom, it must surely come

Not even the moons of Jupiter will be far enough away to run

When this Earth that they've assaulted begins to turn around

And the unavoidable gravity sucks them to the ground

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 of flattery is music to their ears

To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet

It's like playin' Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian roulette

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian roulette

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian roulette