Lyrics: Brooke Maxwell/Jacob Richmond
Music: Brooke Maxwell/Jacob Richmond
O: Uranium
ALL: Uranium
That’s our town our friendly town
O: Uranium
ALL: Uranium
That’s our town our highway town
N: The sky is almost blue here
Grain elevators too here
ALL: The pride and joy of sweet Saskatchewan
C: We came here for the half-life and stayed here for our whole life
ALL: To give the whole wide world plutonium
C: Uranium
ALL: Uranium
That’s our town our friendly town
Oh no no we will never leave this town at all
K: And my part in the story
I read the children’s fortunes
I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams
knowing they would board the doomed roller coaster
and could tell them nothing
I even suggested that they ride the Cyclone
On Monday
September 14th
They would board the Cyclone roller coaster at 6:17pm
At 6:19
This same roller coaster’s front axle would break
causing to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop
hurtling the children to their death
ALL: And then you’re through space
You don’t know up from down
And you feel a little strange
from all that spinning round
And everything you loved
and everything you dreamed
and everything you feared
and everything that seemed so oh so terrifying
It’s far behind on the ground
Like our far from the city itty bitty pretty hometown
Just a teeny tiny dot on a wee blue ball
and we’ve all been spinning
M&N&R: all been spinning
ALL: Round and round and round
and round and round
round and round
and round and round and round
and round and round
O&C: Empty streets of empty shops (M&N&R: Ur—an——ium)
shuttered rows of mom and pops (M&N&R: UR—)
Bow down to the mega shopping mall (M&N&R: an——ium)
M&N&R: The smart ones all packed up and went (O&C: Ur—an——ium)
M&N&R: Why stay if you can’t pay the rent (O&C: Ur—)
M&N&R: We will never leave this town at all (O&C: an——ium)
ALL: Drink some brew
join the choir
build yourself a funeral pyre
Uranium our dead end dive
We’ll never leave this town alive
No we will never
LEAVE
THIS
TOWN
AT
ALL
K: Good evening children
It’s time to play
ALL: Earth is sky and sky is ground
DID WE FINALLY LEAVE OUR TOWN