React(or) ~ Dedicated to victims of the Fukushima nuclear crisis [ Reactor ]
Channel: Squeaky Toy Music
Date: 2011-08-04

Please sing this song, share it, ask your favorite band to learn it, replay it for your friends, bookmark it, hum it at the hairdresser, hang it on your rear-view mirror, take it out to lunch, make it into a hat, get it rip-roaring drunk, feed it to the pigeons. If it can make a difference in any way, then do that with it.   MORE BELOW...

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BTW -- This is not a professionally recorded song -- it was done with minimal equipment, in a limited amount of time, sitting at a desk in a home office, using Garageband. The content is the thing, not the performance. 'Nuff said.

This song calls for a sensible direction in our decisions about how to generate energy for a growing world. Read the "philosophy" after the video for a brief explanation of my opinion on nuclear power. But please consider:

Nuclear power, we are told, is cleaner than other energy sources, has manageable risk, and is sufficiently controlled. But we have been shown that human error and acts of God can lead to true disasters; we continue to see that no one really knows what to do with the deadly, nearly immortal wastes that are created (we simply bury them); we continue to get hints that the true risks are understated and that many decisions about nuclear are made based on what is most profitable, rather than what is safest. If we are truly at a crossroads, let's REACT!

-Adam



LYRICS
Reactor

React, react, our days are dire,
React, react, or walk a wire,
React, react, or face the fire -- 
Something’s in the air…

There’s a high price to be paid
We cannot tame the beasts we’ve made
The devil waits within the tower
Shall we trade our souls for power?

refrain

When human error, quake or flood
Can turn a blessing into blood
And poison water, air and land,
Our future’s built on shifting sand.

React, react, react, react…

Twenty-five thousand, fifty thousand. a hundred thousand years,
So long will live the poison from this bottle full of fears,
And once it’s been decanted and before we taste the worst,
Of all the things that melt away, the truth will be the first.

refrain

Are we born to drown beside
Men who are sworn to tame the tide?
No, we must fight till day is done
To build our might from wind and sun.

refrain

React, react, our days are dire,
React, react, or walk a wire,
React, react, or face the fire -- 
Change is in the air;
Pray that’s all that’s there…




Words & Music by Adam Steinberg
 ©1997 Ahem Songs
REVISED 2011