Downwinders

from Teary Deluge by Thinkspeak

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ah, Nukes... try nonukesyall.org or ieer.org or psr.org for a look at what they've done, are doing and plan to do... more madness for sure. Nuke energy was recommended AGAINST by the Paley Commission in the early 50s but since the sociopaths running things wanted to develop nuke weapons they found it convenient to mask their activity behind the "peaceful atom"... a brazen propaganda term if ever there was one.

lyrics

Once up on a time there was a propaganda campaign
to divert attention from nightmare weapons
beautiful words hid the terrible sword

chorus:
we were innocent we were trained to be
the rulers like a free hand so they lie to we
live better electricity too cheap to meter vicious strategy
and now we're all downwinders

2.
up went the cooling towers across our trembling planet
did the devil's dance in the state of France
60 sites in that little space - chorus

3.
rows of drums 55 gallons big and little leaks in the aquifer
in a million years it'll all decay
meanwhile we'll just keep it someplace safe

in Europe there were volcanoes ten thousand years ago
and glaciers in Wisconsin - chorus

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from Teary Deluge, released May 1, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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