LYRICS

BOTANY UNDER BOMB LIGHT

I plant my thyme where the crater cracked

Where the sun peeks in through the ceiling slat

With a coffee can spade and a ladle for rain

I'm coaxing up lettuce on a windowpane



It's botany under bomb light

Petunias blooming by flare flare night

We prune with gloves and hum to the seeds

While the rad count rises and the marigold feeds



My carrots glow but they sure do crunch

And my beans tap Morse at a quarter past lunch

The dandelions duck when the sirens scream

But they pop back up in my fallout dream



It's botany under bomb light

Where compost sings and the turnips bite

We dig with spoons we mulch with grace

We're the bunker bells of the garden race



The violets bloom in filtered air

The ivy climbs the bunker stairs

And when the world forgets to be kind

A sunflower grows in my radioactive mind



It's botany under bomb light

With blossom breath and chlorophyll fright

We sow with song

We reap with pride

In the blasted earth

We bloom inside