The Great Unknown

The Great Unknown - Dar Williams

Once upon a time

There was a nuclear family

And we lived in a family time

We'd unite in a family way

And off the ancient mountain

They were splitting every nucleus

But they said "Don't be alarmed"

They said "Just don't try this at home"

And they were the mystery

That made the world run

And we had the power cause

They were the sun

And we called them our heroes

And the future had come

They said

"Look at the light we're giving you

And the darkness

That we're saving you from"

And soon they were bringing

It into our showrooms

And they'd unveil it with it's title

'Bring your family

Bring your family

It's the great unknown'

You can look but you can't fathom

It's the great unknown

I'm no ordinary princess

I was born in the cold war

And my team is the Rockets

Go team it's a dangerous time

And I dream of the moon

And building lunar clone colonies

And I build my peace through strength

That's the best weapon you've got

Oh I am the brainchild

I am the mortar

With a plastic trophy

And an eating disorder

And a vision as big as a great big wall

And they tell me

That I'll move forward for the good of us all

And for the good of nuclear families all

And they think I think I am important

I know I never was

I wasn't

No I never and how could I be

It's the great unknown

Now we've built it

Now it's ticking it's the great unknown

And I am your children

And I am millions

And I wanted to sell out

I wanted to try

But you know that the sky got too low

And the ocean got too high

And I

I had to take God into my own hands

Am I too late

Is it over

Have I sacrificed my family

To the great unknown

There's a war between my conscience

And the great unknown

So I walked out into the Gamma

Fields out in Mercury Nevada

Where I stood in a circle

And that circle started to pray

And now the wind at the nuclear test sights

Floats the data at the radiation

From the underground testing

Cross the line you'll get arrested

And we came from all over in a silent appeal

As the drill comes down

Like a presidential seal

And we stand for the living

And we stand for the dead

And we looked out to see your enemies

And we see that you're looking

All at us instead

You think I am being disruptive

But no I'm running home

I'm running

Cause I'm trying to put

The atom back together

It's the great unknown

I'm just trying to put

The atom back together

It's the great unknown