Nuclear mountain, I can see you cry
All your cracks are sifting last goodbyes
Your inner meltdown burns the sky
Raining down like acid in my eyes

Black times of old in my life, oh

Waking warhead lifting from your bed
Oh, silently they turned the key
to paint the world blood-red
Oh, the air is running out of breath here
I see them leap into the toxic sea
to cool their pain of death, yeah

I hear them scream and dying
Black times unending

Some of us are hiding
With our oxygen masks
Battered suits of armour
There's no future left to grasp
The leaders and their puppets with
Heads down in the sand
Soon to trade the nations
For a place outside of man, oh

I can see their spaceships fly away
Somewhere to a station, but they'll never live to stay
Final human frontiers fighting, pushing through the flames
Ashen dreams in buried battles but my heart remains

Atomic soldier rise, yeah
Black times but still alive, oh

There's a rumour of a place
Secret city in a maze
Where the last begin to flock
To escape the doomsday clock
In their pain, they keep the faith
Growing dreams it's not too late
All the children of the sun
Born to live, born to run