Bockscar
Verse 1
It’s mighty pretty, in Salt Lake City
But the train is heading out west
To take the Fat Man by plane to Japan
He is ready and he’s passed the test
But little does he know it’s a one town show
That will change forever today
When he arrives to light up the skies
This tickets going one way
Chorus
Bocks car
Now we’ve gone too far
To ever heal this scar
Verse 2
A saviour cloud saved them from a shroud
No visual, luck is on their side
For us who are vexed, head south to the next
From the echo’s you cannot hide
It is eleven plus two, the targets in view
The curtain is going to fall
In the blink of an eye, no time for goodbye
Blessed are shadows on the wall
Verse 3
One red tally in the Death Valley
As tears of black rain pour
There is no escape from atomic rape
Is this justice in war?
For those of then, and us of now
The lessons of history learn
The many subdue, by the few
What is it about?
Bockscar
Growing up during the Cold war I spent a fair amount of time being terrified of being burnt to a crisp if the USSR’s Leonid Brezhev and US President Ronald Reagan started have a go at each other. I was also interested in aircraft so when Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) released the song Enola Gay, which was the name of the Boeing B29 Superfortress that dropped an atom bomb codenamed Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima in Japan on August 6th 1945 I was hooked. Bockscar is the name of the B-29 that dropped the 2nd nuclear bomb, Fat Man on Nagasaki on the 9th of August 1945.