The Uranium Suite

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town

Our friendly town

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town

Our highway town

The sky is almost blue here

Grain elevators too, here

The pride and joy of sweet Saskatchewan

We came here for the half-life

And stayed here for our whole life

To give the whole wide world plutonium

Uranium

Uranium

That's our town

Our friendly town

Oh, no, no

We will never leave this town at all

In my part of the story, I read all of the children's fortunes

I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams, knowing they would board the doomed rollercoaster

And could tell them nothing, I even suggested that they ride the cyclone

On Monday, September 14th, they would board the cyclone rollercoaster at 6:17 pm

At 6:19, the same rollercoaster's front axle would break

Causing it to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop

Hurtling the children to their deaths

And then you're sailing through space

You don't know up from down

And you feel a little strange

From all that spinning 'round

And everything you loved

And everything you dreamed

And everything you feared

And everything that seems so

Oh, so terrifying

It's far behind on the ground

Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown

Just a teeny, tiny dot on a wee blue ball

And we've all been spinning

All been spinning

Round and round and round

And round and round

Round and round

And round and round and round

And round and round

Uranium

Empty streets of empty shops

Shuttered rows of mom and pops

Bow down to the mega shopping mall

Uranium (the smart ones all packed up and went)

Why stay if you can't pay the rent