The Uranium Suite [Ride The Cyclone: The Musical World Premiere Cast Recording]

Uranium Uranium That's our town Our friendly town Uranium Uranium That's our town Our highway town The sky is almost blue here Grain elevators too, here The pride and joy of sweet Saskatchewan We came here for the half-life And stayed here for our whole life To give the whole wide world plutonium Uranium Uranium That's our town Our friendly town Oh, no, no We will never leave this town at all In my part of the story, I read all of the children's fortunes I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams, knowing they would board the doomed rollercoaster And could tell them nothing, I even suggested that they ride the cyclone On Monday, September 14th, they would board the cyclone rollercoaster at 6:17 pm At 6:19, the same rollercoaster's front axle would break Causing it to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop Hurtling the children to their deaths And then you're sailing through space You don't know up from down And you feel a little strange From all that spinning 'round And everything you loved And everything you dreamed And everything you feared And everything that seems so Oh, so terrifying It's far behind on the ground Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown Just a teeny, tiny dot on a wee blue ball And we've all been spinning All been spinning Round and round and round And round and round Round and round And round and round and round And round and round Uranium Empty streets of empty shops Shuttered rows of mom and pops Bow down to the mega shopping mall Uranium (the smart ones all packed up and went) Why stay if you can't pay the rent Uranium (we will never leave this town at all) Drink some brew, join the choir Build yourself a funeral pyre Uranium, our dead-end dive We'll never leave this town alive No we will never Leave This Town At All Greetings, children It's time to play Earth is sky and sky is ground Did we finally leave our town?