Bruce Cockburn Radium Rain Lyrics

Radium Rain Lyrics

They're hosing down trucks at the border under a rainbow sign --

The
raindrops falling on my head burn into my mind

On a hillside in the
distance there's a patch of green sunshine

Ain't it a shame

Ain't
it a shame

About the radium rain 



Everyday in the paper you
can watch the numbers rise

No such event can over take us here, we're
much too wise

In the meantime don't eat anything that grows and don't
breathe when the cars go by

Ain't it a shame

Ain't it a shame

About the radium rain 



Big motorcycle rumbles out of the rain
like some creation of mist

There's a man on a roof with a blindfold on
and a hand grenade in his fist

I walk stiff, with teeth clenched tight,
filled with nostalgia for a clean wind's kiss

Ain't it a shame

Ain't it a shame

About the radium rain 



A flock of birds
writes something on the sky in a language I can't understand

God's
graffiti -- but it don't say why so much evil seems to land on man

When
everyone I meet just wants to live and love, and get along as best they can

Ain't it a shame

Ain't it a shame

About the radium rain