Bruce Cockburn Radium Rain lyrics

They're hosing down trucks at the border
Under a rainbow sign
The raindrops falling on my head, burn into my mind
On a hillside in the distance, there's a patch of green sunshine

Ain't it a shame?
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain?

Everyday in the paper, you can watch the numbers rise
No such event can overtake us here, we're much too wise
In the meantime, don't eat anything that grows
And don't breathe when the cars go by

Ain't it a shame?
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain?

Big motorcycle rumbles out of the rain like some creation of mist
There's a man on a roof with a blindfold on and a hand grenade in his fist
I walk stiff with teeth clenched tight
Filled with nostalgia for a clean wind's kiss


Ain't it a shame?
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain?

A flock of birds
Writes something on the sky
In a language
I can't understand

God's graffiti but it don't say
Why so much evil seems to land on man
When everyone I meet just wants to live and love
And get along as best they can

Ain't it a shame?
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain?