The lights are on But the truth has been hidden The water slowly disappears into the unknown The steel sweats in the heat Hallucinations rule the control room The signals lie like the state press The bleeding system drives the steam We believe what we see! The core sinks lower and lower The temperature rises, faith dies There is no explosion here Just a premonition that cuts deeper Invisible fire spreads inside the steel coffin No alarm can save anything now The noise echoes in our heads Melting without flames Death without victims Fear escapes and raves And the world is afraid to even breathe Hands tremble Textbook paper burns slowly Core stripped of fuel The exposed heart of a giant fable Milk flowing into the sewers The smell of metallic whipped cream Whispers of radioactive prosperity In the middle of the American dream Open or close? Who is right? Man humbled by machine No one knows Humiliation without explosion A legend full of fear Nothing will ever be the same again Blind trust is gone Dead vision of the atom No pray No sacrifices That's the price we had to pay
