LANL is building more atom bombs –
gonna lead to annihilation
The people say NO!
’cause the people know
that the bombs are an abomination
It's against the law; United Nations law
Nukes have been outlawed
They are against the law
They poison our water, poison the air
with plutonium radiation
“Safety” they vowed, but they lied, so now
we’re demanding a complete cessation
Cease and desist!
You don't know who you’re harming
Cease and desist!
Don’t have a right to endanger us
Goodbye to LANL – bane of the living!
||: Gotta shut you down or you'll
blow up the whole world :|| [repeat]
Now our senators, both, & our governor too
gotta stop you – they must protect us
Forget the federal bucks
‘cause plutonium sucks
and remember that our lives are precious!
Cease and desist!
You don't know who you’re harming
Cease and desist!
Don’t have a right to endanger us
Goodbye to LANL – bane of the living!
||: Gotta shut you down or you'll
blow up the whole world :|| [3 times]
Sirens wail, hair is bristling
children scream, pavement glistening
We've finally paid for hell that we made
Living in a nuclear wasteland
Cancer cells in mutation
growing wild from radiation
No level is safe — Nobody is safe
Living in a nuclear wasteland
In the rubble we can build a shelter
And we’ll try surviving underground
Dreaming of the days when we were healthier
when earth had life and beauty all around
Later on we'll expire,
as we’re filled with the fire
Still singing our song, "We got it all wrong":
Dying in a nuclear wasteland
The feds care for New Mexico
They bring lots of jobs for good dough
They always protect us
and surely respect us
It ain’t necessarily so!
In fact, they’re endangering us
Their safety controls are a bust
They make bombs in haste
and get careless with waste
They’re really not folks we can trust
Plutonium’s safe, don’t you know?
It even emits a warm glow
Though government media
would like to mislead ya,
it ain’t necessarily so!
It’s really quite deadly, it’s true
You don’t want it spilling near you
There’s worker turnover
and deaths from exposure:
you’re hoping we don’t have a clue
The “Land of Enchantment,” we say
It used to be charming that way
But now, mass destruction
is our main production
We’re more disenchanted each day
They act like we don’t matter
here in New Mexico
Remember the explosion
at WIPP some years ago?
We’re just lucky that disaster
occurred below the ground
If it happened on the truck route,
it could have laid us all down
There will be more disasters
and radiation leaks
‘cause LANL and the DOE,
your safety record’s bleak
You have no plan to protect us
from deadly waste filled trucks
And the fact we’re still surviving
is only due to blind luck
How long will luck be with us?
You’re making more bomb cores!
And shipments of plutonium
keep rolling by our doors
Oh, the danger keeps increasing
that we’ll be sacrificed
on the weapons-makers’ altar
And that’s a terrible price
You have to stop this nonsense!
It’s pure insanity
to keep producing nukes and waste
until eternity
leaving us a barren wasteland,
where life no more will grow
You love nukes instead of people
How low can you go?
Our nuclear weapons are sealing our fate
There’s no place to hide, there’s no place that’s safe
And we know that all life on earth is at stake
So we say NO NUKES! for our grandchildren’s sake
With hazardous radioactive pollution
for nuclear waste, there is no solution
And LANL keeps failing to clean their mess up
So that’s why we say, STOP making this stuff!
As people are suffering in desperate straits,
you’re building more bombs and inciting more hate
What kind of a world do you want to create?!
So we say NO NUKES! for our grandchildren’s sake
Oh, for our grandchildren’s sake!
Trucks going by every day
risking the lives of the folks on the way
hauling tons and tons of plutonium
three hundred and thirty miles
Cargo of nuclear waste
nuclear waste that can blow us away
and they keep on transporting more of it
for hundreds of miles,
all likely to be defiled
WIPP was just a “pilot” program
It was never to be more
It was limited and short-term
It would close in ’24
Now they’re planning big expansion
with a deadlier-type waste
The potential for disaster
is expanding, too, apace
Everybody’s life at risk,
even people miles away
Radiation poisoning –
will it kill us all someday?
Valentine Day was the day
Ten years ago radiation did blow
in the toxic waste in the underground –
a stupid mistake, they say
How many stupid mistakes?
How many ways do they threaten our lives?
And we still don’t have any guarantees
their stupid mistakes
won’t happen again someday
Don’t make us a wasteland
No, no, don’t make us a wasteland
No, no, no, no – don’t make us a
nuclear wasteland, nuclear wasteland state
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