They're hosing down trucks
at the border under a rainbow sign
The raindrops falling on my head
burn into my mind
On a hillside in the distance
There's a patch of green sunshine
Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame
About the radium rain
Everyday in the paper
You can watch the numbers rise
No such event can overtake us here
We're much too wise
In the meantime
Don't eat anything that grows
And don't breathe when the cars go by
Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame
About the radium rain
Big motorcycle rumbles out of the rain
like some creation of mist
There's a man on a roof
with a blindfold on
and a hand grenade in his fist
I walk stiff with teeth clenched tight
filled with nostalgia
for a clean wind's kiss
Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame
About the radium rain
A flock of birds writes
something on the sky
in a language I can't understand
God's graffiti
But it don't say why so much
evil seems to land on man
When everyone I meet
just wants to live and love
and get along as best they can
Ain't it a shame, ain't it a shame
About the radium rain
