Bomber Lyrics

Sleek and clean, the death machines stand ready on the decks Inside, the men who fight in them run through their final checks Absorbed in it, the pilots sit, their lives unmoved by hate For those that fly make others die, and never touch their fate He just flies the bomber He never sees their eyes when the hell comes down He just flies the bomber Inbound trip without a slip, the shuttle drops them free They set the track for their attack, the backup comps agree Now trim the jet, and don’t forget to plot in the return It’s time to go, for down below's the planet that must burn He just flies the bomber He never sees their eyes when the hell comes down He just flies the bomber Now make the run, so quick it’s done, and death screams toward the ground But moving fast, they're so far past, they never hear the sound A final turn, as from the stern they watch the mushrooms grow That fill the night with deadly light, and kill the world below He just flies the bomber He never sees their eyes when the hell comes down He just flies the bomber Back aboard the shuttle, there’ll be time enough to think of what they've done They’ll find their antiseptic war won’t leave them with a place that they can run Nowhere to run And there’s no deep untroubled sleep for one with such a debt And guilt alone will not atone, nor let a soul forget Those cries and screams, they’re not just dreams, imagination’s lies “Goddamn the whore, the bitch who bore you killers of the skies!” He just flies the bomber He never sees their eyes when the hell comes down He just flies the bomber