Ghost of Hiroshima

This song was written by Raw Umbers in 1975.

LYRICS:
Ghost of Hiroshima, you come knocking on my door,
you make requests for lives only God can restore.
Rising out of the ashes,
Sliding on the gore,
Sunken eyes in bald skulls,
don't ask me anymore.

You see, i wasn't born yet, in 1945.
But memories of that August day still seem to survive.
You never saw our great bomb,
on the hour it arrived.
Even if you had I doubt you'd still be alive.

Can you tell me what it was like
beneath the flashing burning light?
Did you see our country, in all of its might?
Your shadows started forming as the morning turned to night,
on the sidewalks of your city,
an ungodly sight.

As a tragedy, it wasn't much,
no millions were lost,
we had to save our young boys, no matter what the cost.
We thanked your nation with dollars,
and on your graves we tossed,
200,000 leaflets and a single holocaust.

Slanted eyes and yellow skin,
you were an easy race to hate.
So the horrors of your death, you see,
weren't too tough to relate.
Impatience and fear quickly sealed your fate.
Should've stopped it sooner, but now,
it's not too late.

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[RawUmbers1]

I seem to have hit a nerve.  Read my comment from 4 months ago. Bombing Hiroshima was wrong 60+ years ago, and we have Hiroshimas all around us, like in Darfur, for example. We allow them to happen because we see people as subhuman because they are not like us. Was Dylan praising Masters of War when he sang "Masters of War?" Nope, don't think so.

[RawUmbers1]

Read the lyrics, you will see the song is a commentary on the American belief (in my view, wrong) that bombing Hiroshima was necessary to end the war. There was also an implicit belief at the end of the war that American lives were more valuble than Asian lives - which, obviously, I do not believe. Nuclear weapons are not the answer -"Should've stopped it sooner, but now, it's not too late." We should stop before Hiroshima happens, again.

[Online18223]

Song is racist it uses racist slurs and

Japan & US isnt enemeys no more so it

could never be no hiroshima crap again..

you redneck white thrash need to face

real matters your living in mid life crisis

you failed being a artist i mean only 250

view..i hope you die the world dosnt need

no fucking racists

[gorokusa]

Crazy American patriot!! The USA is not a nation just a place for immigrants.