Malice’s Bomb
I had a dream today Walking in the city I was dreaming of the A-bomb It came to take me away
Then you stood there Your hands outstretched Welcoming Crying with joy Staring at the mushroom cloud
Wind caressing your hair Flash licking your eyes Flame burning you to ashes
Your soul eaten Your shade still remained
I watched Moaning Enraged Jealous
The bomb was not for you It came to take ME away Why did it kiss you? It was for me… Why did it love you?
You saw me dreaming, didn’t you? You – stole – my – dream
I had a dream today It came for me.
Background Info
Oh my. This may need a bit of explaining.
Somewhere in 2003 or -04 I was chatting with a fellow genX:er (on IRC, as proper genX folks did back then) about growing up in an environment of A-bomb scare, bomb documentaries we both managed to see a bit too young, seeing magazines with maps of ”these towns would be targeted by Soviet A-bombs and this far from those towns would be devastated!. This, too, a bit too young. We chatted about the sleepless nights and nightmares resulting from all the tad too grown-up bomb info around us.
Malice’s Bomb grew out of those discussions. Malice, the namesake of my debut album, was a childlike character, a bit disturbed perhaps… or a bit disturbing. These are two quite different things, you know, while they can appear simultaneously.
Long version of this track was performed by me and the other genXer in question in 2004. There’s also a 59 second version made for a consept album of max one minute tracks. i don’t know if that got ever actually released, so I put it on Ten.
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