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Here's Tony going to his cub scout meeting

Tony knows the bomb can explode

Any time of the year

Day or Night

Duck and cover !

Head up boy Tony

That flash means act fast

Sundays, holidays, vacation time

We must be ready everyday, all the time

To do the right thing

When the atomic bomb explodes

Duck and cover !

This land has been raped

Torn in two with the fission scourge

Marked the end of the era of man

Shutting down our business here

Enraptured by the shine

Red buttons pressed tonight

Spurt a thousand mushroom clouds

The ozone layer stripped

From outer stratosphere

The streets run rife

With radioactive debris

We lived best we could

And then we died

Be careful where you tread

The grave is wide

The cities swallowed the fallout

From seven billion agonies

The landscape knows us

Our shadows walk the streets

The heat of the second sun

Translucent flesh

Remember dreaming of my heart

Vanishing in a blast

Waiting for the circle to complete itself

We were told the light would prevail

Looking towards the void

Scared of the second sun

Watched the buildings fall

Found solace in scorched earth

Remember watching the horizon bend

Found solace in scorched earth

Remember watching the horizon bend

Around the blow

We bled upon this heartless world

Vaporized that day

Found peace in air

In this early and troubled stage

of the atomic age

Our lives may depend on always being alert