Mortui te salutant
 Mortui te salutant

 In days gone by - the Chinese man
 As wise as he was old
 Did formulate the concentrate
 The world would now explode

 The cannonball - the rifle shot
 The forces we unfold
 We devastate and terminate
 triumph - we are told

 Who can tell - break the spell
 Reign in [bad word] - when you're messing with

 The bullet and the bomb
 The bullet and the bomb

 The race was on - the will to kill
 When science joined the game
 Unmerciful and finally
 It all became insane

 In forty-five - catastrophe
 In Oppenheimer's mind
 And man did see the universe
 Atomically collide