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"Enola Gay" lyrics
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Lyrics
"Enola Gay" Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
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Writer(s): Andrew Mc Cluskey
Enola Gay
The Cold War was the subject of many 80s synthpop songs, among which "Enola Gay" is one of the best known.
But the disconsolate lyrics and eerie tune of "Enola Gay" still evoke the anxiety, fear, and determination of that strange era.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay Lyrics
Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
Lyrics of Enola Gay (Live in Berlin) by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha, words can′t describe
The feeling and the way you lied
They're going to end in more than tears some day
It shouldn′t ever have to end this way
And that's the time that it′s always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal, and you′re coming home
Is mother proud of little boy today?
It's never ever gonna to fade away
You shouldn′t ever have to live this way
You should've faded our dreams away
And that's the time that it′s always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal, and you're coming home
Is mother proud of little boy today?
It's never ever going to fade away
Writer(s): Andrew Mc Cluskey
The song 'Enola Gay' by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark reflects on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, personifying the Enola Gay bomber plane and questioning the morality and consequences of war.
The song is even more specific -- it is about living in the 1980s under the shadow of Cold War fears of atomic war and nuclear annihilation, which many people at the time viewed as inevitable given the way world events seemed to be going.
The lyrics convey a sense of regret, sorrow, and reflection on the devastating impact of war on humanity, using the Enola Gay as a metaphor for destruction and the haunting legacy it leaves behind.
• It shouldn't ever have to end this way • You shouldn't ever have to live this way • You should have stayed at home yesterday • Enola Gay • Conditions normal, and you're coming home • Is mother proud of little boy today?
Many people living at the time truly believed that the Cold War would still be going on long after they were no longer alive -- if the world was not destroyed first -- yet because of "Enola Gay" and many other forms of popular expression that reminded people of these issues and gave them a way to articulate their fears (and hopes), popular movements around the world eventually forced a change of heart by political leaders.
By the early 1990s, America has begun extensive nuclear disarmament and Soviet Russia had completely collapsed.
The Cold War was over. The other posters who point out the obvious reference to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ("Little Boy"), and the evocation of the imagery of a mother and her child as an ironic metaphor for the relationship between the bomber and the bomb, are all correct. (The melancholy, bittersweet yet strangely kicky tune of the original song also expresses that feeling -- for young people at the time a song that they could dance to in the shadow of their own impending destruction seemed perfectly appropriate.) In many places throughout popular culture, not just song lyrics,
But in saying, "It shouldn't ever have to end this way," the song is also making a tacit plea to change the direction of world events, challenging just a tiny bit the idea that nuclear destruction was completely inevitable.
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Take full control of your lyrics. The song looks back almost wistfully to the point in history when that state of existence was brought into being.
The motif of the clock stopped at 8:15, the indelible kiss (of the heat flash from the bomb blast), and the call of "conditions normal," all reference that sense of history frozen on the precipice of armageddon.