Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Mayday in Kiev, artist - Watchtower. Album song Control and Resistance, in the genre
Date of issue: 31.12.1988
Record label: Sanctuary Records Group
Song language: English
Mayday in Kiev |
«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 |