Laid to Waste

26th April, 1986.
Reactor number 4, a nuclear blast hits
It's suffocated by intoxication
Man made irradiated desolation

Blasted core
Laid to waste

Turbo generated power to the main
Line in time cut with a radio
Active intravenous turbine spit
To blast more, cast more, atom split
Creating death is nothing new
It's like that's all we ever know how to do
That time though we found a new way to kill
Everything alive that day in Chernobyl

It's all fucked

Laid to waste
A hole is opened wide
Bleeding
Rotten matter left to decay
A life to recreate
Left to breathe
The soul is healing
With enough room to grow
30 years on now life can be

Blasted core
Laid to waste

Unfit for humans for twenty thousand years
Ionized radiation from our mother's tears
Nothing can live, nothing can breathe
Nothing comes in nobody will ever leave
A martyr to a time when we thought we knew best
But a shattered disaster when put to the test
Confined or excluded, the meaning is the same
When confronted by earth's zero sum game

Zero sum game

Laid to waste
A hole is opened wide
Bleeding
Rotten matter left to decay
A life to recreate
Left to breathe
The soul is healing
With enough room to grow
30 years on now life can be

Human
Beaten
Cycle
Repeating
And reaching for the
Sunlight shining in the darkest place
The wolves at the door fall back into grace
The trees that grow know a strength that shows the seeds are
Sown to feed those who grow in
Spite of being laid to waste
A life displaced now claims its own place

Laid to waste
A hole is opened wide
Bleeding
Rotten matter left to decay
A life to recreate
Left to breathe
The soul is healing
With enough room to grow
30 years on now life can be

Life now blooms
Despite the fear of a
Desolation, isolation, poisoned heart
The beating isn't beaten when given a start.