Mayday In Kiev Lyrics - Singles - Watchtower

Music: Jarzombec, Keyser 

Lyrics: Keyser 

"The unleashed power of the atom changed everything 

save our mode of thinking, and we thus drift toward 

unparalleled catastrophes." 

- Albert Einstein 

In a nation for a dangerous penchant for secrecy 

A dread disaster at Chernobyl was concealed 

As a poisoning cloud spread over the Eastern Bloc 

Alarming information was reluctantly revealed 

An explosion in Reactor Four - a fire refusing to cease 

No containment walls preventing radioactive release 

Evidence that peaceful technology had gone awry 

More catastrophically than Windscale or TMI 

Alert - Celebration in Kiev 

Under glowing skies - Soviet lies 

Alert - In nearby Poland 

A shower of radiation 

Children iodized 

Mayday - A day of rejoice 

A cry of distress 

Severe political fallout - toxic exchange of words 

Soviet obscurantism under verbal attack 

Abroad, outraged countries appeal for information 

Met with grudging riposte, hesitant placation 

At home, TASS reports no danger - nothing to fear 

As deadly elemental isotopes spew into the biosphere 

"The unleashed power of the atom ..." - A warning from the past 

The benefits of technology are reversed by careless human error 

Science, once a saviour, now an effective destroyer 

We must apply our knowledge with care 

Entombed in concrete, Chernobyl will forever remain 

A monument to the chilling effects of negligence