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 |