Subhumans - Someone Is Lying

Album: Worlds LP
Release Date: 1985

Flowers that decay on the graves that are fresh
The problem got burried alongside the flesh
The contamination of body and soul
By nuclear waste dumped a long time ago
When father was thirty he worked for the state
Producing the weapons to keep a stalemate
Deterence by inference no-one could win
Balancing power but the knife-edge was thin
Father was paid so he didn't complain
But felt it was rather a dangerous game
Producing a toy to destroy, was it wrong?
But problems came up so he had to stay on
The production of waste was the problem to solve
It wouldn't evaporate rot or dissolve
They used metal coffins to bury at sea
The nuclear radioactivity
They said it was safe for a very long time
And paid off the papers to say that was fine
And nobody worried about that anymore
They were too busy worrying about the next war...
The wastage seeped out and diseases were found
In the lungs of the men who worked underground
'It's coaldust, it's cancer, it's normal' they said
'Til somebody shouted 'these people are dying
Someone is lying'
- and father is dead