Don Lange
Telephone rang; have you heard the news
Carrion crows coming home to roost
Over at the plant you know something went wrong
Take the children and run.
They say they'll fix, if we only stay calm
Go back to your factories, go back to your farms
Don't you get angry, don't you lose your cool
And the bosses will share their power with you.
Take the children and run
Take the children and run
Take the children and run.
Doctor Atomic lying through his teeth
Says we've nothing to fear except fear itself
And he visits the plant in a lead-lined suit
And it comes out looking like courage on the evening news.
Take the children and run
Take the children and run
Take the children and run.
You're on the commission and you're sixty years old
You make a deal with the devil and his profits unfold
But twenty years down the line, and that little girl
Is in the prime of her life and her blood cells grow wild.
Take the children and run
Take the children and run
Take the children and run.
I saw the reactor through an April haze
It looked like a blunderbuss aimed at the sky
It's your friendly atom raging out of control
And your scientists are praying for Lady Luck's smile.
Take the children and run
Take the children and run
Take the children and run
Take the children and run.