Magic Lantern Days Songtext
von mewithoutYou

Hail the blest atomic morn
Unto the earth the bomb is born
The pebble-bed reactor core
Up to the sky ascends
Hail the blest atomic sea
Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Whose lips, untouched with blasphemy
Our glowing eyes attend

Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth
Say, "Pride will cast our victories off
The deep blue to our Kasparov
Our mortal thoughts impart
Time will fill the rubbish yards
The hospitals, the funeral yards
But neither time nor I can hold
Your 1985 Chernobyl heart"


Brightest and best
Are the children of the morning
Dawn on our darkness
Lend us thine aid

In what mysterious ways
We reenact the closet plays
From charming magic lantern days
For the android wails below
You′d be cast as the Nazarene
In the unrepenting desert scene
And here to me you're Mary Magdalene
Our lady of the snow

Brightest and best
Are the children of the morning
Dawn on our darkness
Lend us thine aid


Shower of love west
The horizon before me
(Son of man, son of man, we′ll follow thee into glory)
Dawn on our darkness
Lend us thine aid
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid
Dawn on our darkness, lend us thine aid