Some time ago in decades past,
My neighbors split the atom.
A scientific power
Mankind couldn't rightly fathom.
Preaching patriotism,
We left foreign cities flattened.
Warplanes whizzed across the wide world,
And dropped our A-bombs at em'.
A nuclear-powered hometown,
......
I bet you have everything
You could ever gloat
All the pain you caused in the process
Well fuck it, I left that sorry pain in Saltcoats
And although I'm deprived of sleep
And feeble feelings in this downbeat
Memory of my hometown, where teachers still pray for me
But does God not know that by now, you were the only light I did need.
Some time ago in decades past,
My neighbors split the atom.
A scientific power
Mankind couldn't rightly fathom.
Preaching patriotism,
We left foreign cities flattened.
Warplanes whizzed across the wide world,
And dropped our A-bombs at em'.
A nuclear-powered hometown,
......
I bet you have everything
You could ever gloat
All the pain you caused in the process
Well fuck it, I left that sorry pain in Saltcoats
And although I'm deprived of sleep
And feeble feelings in this downbeat
Memory of my hometown, where teachers still pray for me
But does God not know that by now, you were the only light I did need.