Magic Lantern Days

Hail the blest atomic morn Unto the earth a 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 Said pride would cast our victories off The Deep Blue to our Kasparov Our moral thoughts impart Time will fill the rubbish yard Fill the hospitals, fill the graveyards But neither time nor I can hold your 1985 Chernobyl heart Brightest and best Are the children of the morning Dawn on our darkness And lend us thine aid In unmysterious ways We re-enacted closet plays From charming, Magic Lantern days For the android whales below You'd be cast as the Nazarene In the unrepenting desert scene Near to me, your Mary Magdalene Our Lady of the Snow Brightest and best Are the children of the morning Dawn on our darkness And lend us thine aid Star of the west horizon deforming Come dawn in our darkness Lend us thine aid Guide where our infant redeemer is laid Guide where our infant redeemer is laid --- Magic Lantern Days - mewithoutYou