Gone Fission

[Intro] The 1979 accident ... Three Mile Island .. Severely damaged the reactor core... The explosion blew apart the frame of the top of the building ... Sustained significant damage ... Catches fire and explodes... [Hook] Oh, you looking at nuclear fission power? Taking some risks, y'all got some ambition now How much radioactive waste we make in an hour? I bet 300 hundred thousand years from now Our kids will call us cowards Now y'all gone fission, and I'm no politician But that's conflict of agreement, I'm not sure what y'all envisioned That's signed under all conditions, Mother Nature's not forgiving The time came to save the world and now all of y'all just gone fission [Verse 1] Long ago in December of 1938 in Germany Meitner and Frisch discovered something Like really great, opened the gates Manhattan project, atomic bomb Give it to me straight, at odds with the soviets You know the japs, hope like curfew You know they were out way too late Then we dropped Fat Man like cleaning your dinner plate Besides nuclear in military, it was really scary But now we got energy and fewer enemies It works for us - we harnessed chemistry Splitting uranium - Increasing entropy Get your lead ready, these rays no remedy [There has been an accident at the Chernobyl atomic power station] Watch for the tragedy, Reagan and Kennedy Plants are so fragile we make them expensive Backwards a travesty, heat to the steam Got fancy gadgetry, what does this mean We don't know what's gonna happen We must therefore go right now and take action Look at the effects you enacting You're an assassin Yeah this is for real, no you're not imagining Care about fission like fashion? You'll know its easier, but not what's happening This is like chicken, no napkins This like a talent show, but no one clapping Meitner, Frisch, Rutherford, Bohr They all had that passion but nothing more They're a lot like used fuel rods Now though they're "worthless," they once were the core [Hook] [Verse 2] Now how'd you like to be caught Thinking about the long term? (I would) The right way to go is NOT fission Hey, did you hear that Switzerland plant burned? They're lookin' for that [Head start on tomorrow Head - head start on tomorrow - morrow] That's twenty years before three mile Not eight mile, we were trying to fuel Apollo Okay sure, no heat generated CO2 And the radiations are harmless (you know) It's cost effective right now But potential debt might be ringing up commas Talkin' bout nuclear meltdown Talkin' about ice caps and hot saunas In east Asia we call that kind of thing karma This could have been the Bahamas [America must start building nuclear power plants] Listen to reason, y'all know this ain't alien What's splitting uranium do to the cranium? I know it's not safe but right now I'm defending him Bush didn't know necessarily what would be felt Fukushima like property that you can't sell Limitless fuel you know, nuclear on the go We can have this in two decades; It's not that slow We gotta have more, the way people grow Studying in San Francisco Magnetic, inertial confinement Better environment Fission though has no asylum Unless you don't want energy to improve Unless you want the human race to lose Petition for fusion but you have to choose [Hook] [Outro] We know this is one of the most contaminated places on Earth