Words and music by dar williams
Once upon a time there was a nuclear family,
And we lived in a family time,
And we'd unite in a family way.
And off the ancient mountain,
They were splitting every nucleus.
They said 'don't be alarmed,
Just don't try this at home.'
And they were the mystery that made the world run
And we had the power, 'cause they were the sun
And we called them our heroes, and the future had come.
They said,'look at the light we're giving you,
And the darkness we're saving you from.'
Soon they were bringing it into our showroom,
And they'd unveil it with it's title,
Bring your family, bring your family,
It's the great unknown.
You can look, but you can't fathom,
It's the great unknown.
I'm no ordinary princess, I was born in the cold war,
And my team is the rockets.
Go team, it's a dangerous time.
And I dream of the moon and building lunar clone colonies.
And I build my peace with strength, that's the best weapon you've
Got.
Oh, I am the brainchild, I am the mortar,
With a plastic trophy and an eating disorder,
And vision as big as a great big wall,
And they tell me that I'll move forward for the good of us all,
And the good of nuclear families all.
And they think I think I am important.
I know I never was, no I wasn't.
No I never, and how could I be?
It's the great unknown.
Now we've built it, now it's ticking,
It's the great unknown.
And I am your children, I am millions.
And I wanted to sell out, I wanted to try,
But you know the sky got too low, and the ocean got too high.
And I tried to take God into my own hands.
Am I too late? is it over?
Have I sacrificed my family to the great unknown?
There's a war between my conscience and the great unknown.
So I walked out into the gamma fields
Out in mercury, nevada.
Where I stood in circle and that circle started to pray.
And the wind at the nuclear test sights floats the data at the radiation.
From the underground testing,
Cross the line, you'll get arrested.
And we came from all over in a silent appeal
As the drill comes down like a presidential seal.
And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,
And we looked out to see your enemies,
And we see that you're looking all at us instead.
And you think I am being disruptive?
But no I'm running home, I'm running,
'cause I'm trying to put the atom back together.
It's the great unknown.
I'm just trying to put the atom back together.
It's the great unknown.
The Great Unknown
Dar Williams
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Lyrics by Dar Williams
After All After All [DVD] All My Heroes Are Dead Alleluia And A God Descended Another Mystery Anthem Are You Out There Are You Out There Intro Arrival As Cool As I Am Beautiful Enemy Better Things Blue Light of the Flame Book of Love Bought And Sold Buzzer Calamity John Calling The Moon Christians and Pagans Closer to Me College Girl Comfortably Numb Comfortably Numb - Ani Difranco Crystal Creek Echoes Elegy Empire End of the Summer Everybody Knows this is Nowhere Family Farewell To The Old Me February Fishing In The Morning Flinty Kind Of Woman For Everyone Go To The Woods Highway Patrolman Holly Ann (The Weaver Song) Holly Tree Hudson I am the one who will remember everything I Had No Right I Have Been Around the World I Have Lost My Dreams I Love, I Love I Love, I Love [Travelling II] I Saw A Bird Fly Away I Will Free Myself I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono I'll Miss You Till I Meet You If I Wrote You Imagine In Love But Not At Peace Iowa Iowa (Traveling 3) Iowa (Traveling III) Ireland It Happens Every Day It Happens Every Day [DVD] It's A War In There It's Alright Liar Mark Rothko Song Mercy Of The Fallen Midnight Radio Mortal City My Friends New York Is a Harbor O Canada O Canada Girls Party Generation Play The Greed Playing To The Firmament Road Buddy So Close to My Heart Southern California Wants To Be Western New York Southern California Wants To Be Western New&hellip... Spring Street Starman Stop Smoking Storm King Summer Child Summerday Teen For God Teenagers, Kick Our Butts Terrarium The Babysitter's Here The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen The Ballad Of Mary Magdalene The Beauty of the Rain The Blessings The Business of Things The Christians & The Pagans The Christians & The Pagans The Christians and the Pagans The Easy Way The End of the Summer The Hudson The Light and the Sea The Ocean The One Who Knows The Poignant, Yet Pointless, Crisis Of A Coed The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co - Ed The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed The Tide Falls Away The Weaver Song The World's Not Falling Apart This Earth This Is Not The House That Pain Built This Land Is Your Land This Was Pompeii Traveling Again Traveling Again (Traveling 1) Traveling Again (Traveling I) Troubled Times Two Sides of the River We Learned The Sea Weight of the World What Do You Hear in These Sounds What Do You Love More Than Love When I Was A Boy When It Gets That Way When Sal's Burned Down Whispering Pines Wild Mountain Thyme Wilder Than Her You Are Everyone You Rise and Meet the Day You Will Ride With Me Tonight You're Aging Well Your Fire Your Soul
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