Take me out of the bomb game
take me out of the wars
Buy me no nuclear warheads, Jack
I’ll be glad if they never come back!
Oh it’s Boo! Boo! Boo! for the bomb team
If they should win, we all lose
And it’s ONE! – ONE! –
ONE strike we’re out at the old bomb game!
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]
NOT another Hiroshima!
No more genocide!
We reject your evil scheme now
to get the whole world fried
Who needs weapons of mass murder,
except mass-murderers?
Sorry, boys, we won’t allow you,
to destroy the world!
You’d incinerate, you’d annihilate
nations that may disagree
you keep building more
armaments for war
That is pure insanity
Someone’s making wars for profit
Mega-bucks for nukes, I know-o-o-o
violence and gore for profit
Who would ever stoop so low?
You’ll kill, fiddling around
with these nukes, you CRAZY FOOLS!
We'll die, the world around –
I suppose you think that’s cool!
NOT another Hiroshima!
We must lead the way!
This is not a silly dream now –
we must avert doomsday
Stop the weapons of mass murder!
Stop mass-murderers!
Let’s get rid of all the nukes, now!
We must save the world!
We’re gonna get rid of nasty nukes
We will abolish them, we will abolish them
We will abolish them
We’re gonna get rid of nasty nukes
will abolish them – Abolish them for good
We ain’t gonna study war no more
ain’t gonna study war no more
study war no more
We ain’t gonna study war no more,
ain’t gonna study war no more
study war no more
We’re gonna quit spending trillions
on nukes that we don’t need
Take care of people’s needs
Take care of people’s needs
We’re gonna quit spending trillions
on nukes that we don’t need
Take care of people’s needs
We ain’t gonna spend no more on nukes
ain’t gonna spend no more on nukes
spend no more on nukes
We ain’t gonna spend no more on nukes
ain’t gonna spend no more on nukes
spend no more on nukes
We’re gonna renew diplomacy
We mustn’t escalate, we mustn’t escalate
We must negotiate
We’re gonna renew diplomacy
We mustn’t escalate – We must negotiate
We don’t wanna get the whole world fried
don’t wanna get the whole world fried
No more genocide!
We don’t wanna get the whole world fried
don’t wanna get the whole world fried
No more genocide!
There’s no business like war business,
the gore business, for sure
Everything about it is appalling
Everything the market will allow
Long as they can
keep the stocks from falling
they’ll keep on calling
for more and more
This war business is big business
Now that everyone knows
Politicians represent the war machine
‘cause corporate profits rule everything
Human life and human rights
don’t mean a thing
with war running the show
There’s no business like nuke business
it’s death business, we swear
Never mind the radiation cancer
Never mind the water and the air
How can you escape contamination
when radiation is everywhere?
This nuke business is bad business,
it’s so bad, it’s absurd
They can kill a million people in a flash
Our state sponsors these psychopaths
We’re in the apocalypse
and that’s a fact
with war running the world
with war running the world!
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
There’s a factory, in New Mexico
making the evilest inventions ever known:
weapons of mass destruction, death and hate
All living things on earth, you wanna incinerate
Cost of making bombs is astronomical
Why keep on making something so unthinkable?
“Deterrence,” you say – that’s what nukes are for
But all the nukes on earth will never deter a war
Our kids and grandkids, their lives are precious
And for their sake now we’ve got to stop the nukes!
All living creatures, all life is precious
And for life’s sake, we’ve got to stop the nukes!
Let us live in peace!
You’re playing with the end of the world
So stop playing! Let us be!
You who love these mass murder machines,
you are mass murderers, with us in your fever dreams
Hiroshima was kindergarten play
You are the psychopaths, you’re leading us to doomsday
Our kids and grandkids, their lives are precious
And for their sake now, we’ve got to stop the nukes!
All living creatures, all life is precious
And for life’s sake, we’ve got to stop the nukes!
Let us live in peace!
You’re playing with the end of the world
So stop playing! Let us be!
Got to stop the nukes!
Let us live in peace!
You’re playing with the end of the world
So stop playing! Let us be!
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
Hey, dudes, stop making nukes!
Got too many –
we sure don’t need any more
Stop selling
destruction, horror and gore
Time to turn back from
the brink of a world war
Hey, dudes, try doing good
Side with life, now, and make it better
You're spending
a vast amount of our cash
working to blast us
to ruin and slaughter
You make up crises based on lies,
you demonize
to have an excuse for bombing nations
So stop this reckless march to war we’ve seen before
consider the tragic implications
Hey, dudes, abolish nukes!
Find a good use
for LANL’s brain power
Remember, all life on earth is at stake
When will you wake
to this urgent hour?
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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