Enola gay omd lyrics

The Cold War was the subject of many 80s synthpop songs, among which "Enola Gay" is one of the best established. The other posters who indicate out the obvious reference to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ("Little Boy"), and the evocation of the imagery of a mother and her youngster as an ironic metaphor for the relationship between the bomber and the bomb, are all correct. The song is even more specific -- it is about living in the s under the shadow of Cool 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 song looks support almost wistfully to the signal in history when that articulate of existence was brought into being.

The motif of the clock stopped at , 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. (The melancholy, bittersweet yet strangely kicky tune of the original song also expresses that feeling -- for adolescent people