Point Hope

Hey little darling
 There's something that you should know
 This thing is gonna hound every soul
 This thing it won't let us go
 Gonna take us down to nothing
 Gonna eat us from the inside out
 And hey, little darling
 I don't want you feeling the fallout
 When the cancer finally took him
 I was watching the trucks pull in
 Me and your daddy, we had a job under the ground, mining uranium
 Some things your daddy leaves you, there's
 Some things he don't
 Some things are gonna be here anyhow and
 Some things just wont
 One thing I want you to understand is
 you ain't gotta be no mining man
 I curse the day that I went down and I
 Pulled that shit out of the ground
 Now we were living over in Nevada
 That's where your people come from
 Your grandma would take me and your daddy on down to the gunnery range
 We sit and watch the bombs blow and when the sun goes down
 All the colors runnin like the Painted Desert and you get to see it now
 Them government boys had something so damn secret they had to hide it in the desert sand
 Out there the sky's so big and there ain't no mistaking it, who's got the winning hand?
 Now I've been all the way to Alaska
 To a town they call Point Hope
 Where they took some of what we got down here
 just to see how it would grow
 I hear the lichen bought it, now it's running thru the caribou
 I said, soon, little darling
 ah, you'll get to feel it too