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