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The Sound of the Alarm

from Zbierka Hriechov by Strauss ex Machina

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I just had to do a machine-pop song, because I simply wanted to. I can't write boy-meets-girl/boy lyrics (because I can't stand them), so even if the tune itself is sort of catchy, the contents deal with the usual stuff:

Destruction, death, the end of life as we think we know it and whatnot. After all, it's more realistic. Power plants do explode. True everlasting love, on the other hand, only exists in fiction and the hearts of dreamers. Love is not even half as permanent as death.

Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about how nuclear plants operate in reality, so if anyone feels like pointing out that this scenario doesn't really work that way, don't.
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lyrics

A distant power plant
Built from scrap metal from the war
I'm on the graveyard shift
I'm all alone, close to the core

Caught in a lab, in a maintenance room is where I dwell
Splitting atoms for a living... hell

I hear a distant noise
Some crucial levels have been reached
On the surveillance screen
The primary containment has been breached

(and the warning message goes something like this:)

There is a partial core melt
There's a disaster close at hand
the cooling systems
are too unstable
and there are things here that I really should disarm
Before the sound of the alarm

A lockdown sequence rolls
The mainframe's going bluescreen and then blank
I feel a sudden cold
And strange vibrations from that septic tank

My radiation suit
is full of holes and doesn't fit
This place does not compute
and finally I think it's time to quit

which won't happen 'cause the place is going down

I watch the cracking walls
And big machines falling apart
The banging water hammers
Hold with the beating of my heart
as the fallout might really do me harm
I hear the sound of the alarm

Caught in lab in a massive heap of debris
Crushed by junk and I can't break free

Not going anywhere!
I'm out of options, out of time
I'm running out of air
The pipes around are leaking with slime
(some glowing stuff I usually do not touch)

I feel the water boil
Somehow I don't feel any fear
This radioactive coil
Is signalling the end of my career

I sing the meltdown countdown
In a few minutes I'll be toast
Level seven
I'm gonna roast
But like the captain on a sinking ship I am staying on my post
And I go nuclear as the skin melts on my arm
To the sound of the alarm

credits

from Zbierka Hriechov, released January 1, 2017
Words/musak: J.Strauss
Backing vocals: Kari Berg

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Strauss ex Machina Gothenburg, Sweden

Solo project of J.Strauss of Morlocks, basically an attempt to settle the score with the music of the eighties and other oddities.

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