"Enewetak" by The Posies - video and Lyrics

This is a live performance (with lyrics below) of Enewetak, my favorite song from The Posies latest album, Blood/Candy.Some 43 nuclear tests were fired at Enewetak from 1948 to 1958. The first hydrogen bomb test, code-named Ivy Mike, was held in late 1952 as part of Operation Ivy, and it vaporized the islet of Elugelab.  After those 43 tests, the U.S. returned the islands to the islanders.




"Enewetak"
by Ken Stringfellow and Jonathan Auer


Ah, this could have been Enewetak
Stressed, embattled, irradiated, evacuated, and
Something’s on in those isles a foreign power said
Ah this could have been Enewetak, now bathed in comet spray


So many devils were called out now cast in concrete
The land was vapor after Operation Ivy


Hydrogen Megatons Medical 4.1
Has anyone else read HG Wells Shapes have come?


Try to find Enewetak
They say
Man will bury you, but I hope God takes you back in his arms and says “Earth Air Fire + the Sea:
Physics stole them all from me.
But I will try to keep Enewetak out the rising waves”


And all the mothers loved their babies tho they weren’t like us no more
Lay out a heading for the homeworld of a species on parole


Dust in the atmosphere 24,000 years
A radioactive trail of tears in the sand
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