hey little darling

there's something that you should know

this things gonna hound every soul

this thing they won't let us go

gonna break us down to nothing

gonna eat us from the inside out

hey little darling

i don't want you to feeling the fallout 



ah when the cancer finally took him

i was watching the trucks pull in

me and your daddy we had a job

under the ground mining uranium

some things your daddy leaves you

some things he don't

some things are gonna be here anyhow

and some things just won't

one thing i want you to understand

is you ain't gotta be no mining man

i curse the day that i went down

and i pulled that shit out of the ground 



now we were living over in nevada

that's where your people come from

your grandma would take me and your daddy

on down to the gunnery range

we sit and watch the bombs blow

until the sun goes down

all those colors running like the painted desert

and you get to see it now 



them government boys have something so damn secret

they had to hide it in the desert sand

out there the skies so big

and there ain't no mistaking it

whose got the winning hand 



ah

ah ah ah ah





i said i've been all the way to alaska

to a town they call point of hope

where they took some of what we got down here

just to see how it would grow

i hear the lichen bought it

and now it's running through the caribou

i said soon little darling

you'll get to feel it too

get to feel it too

oh i said soon little darling

you'll get to feel it to

hmm hmm hmm yeah

oh yeah hmm hmm

hmm hmm hmm

oh yeah hmm hmm

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