# Disaster song!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaster-song/393116>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 21, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaster-song/393116 "2007-02-21T18:16:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tiger\_lily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@tiger\_lily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiger_lily)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaster-song/393116/61 "2007-02-27T21:54:29Z")

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I get to post this song in two different threads in short order? Cool.

“[Cities in Dust](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/siouxie+and+the+banshees/cities+in+dust_20125430.html)” by Siouxsie and the Banshees, which is about the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

_Water was running; children were running  
You were running out of time  
Under the mountain, a golden fountain  
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?  
But oh your city lies in dust, my friend_

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**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaster-song/393116/62 "2007-02-27T22:19:57Z")

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World of Light by John Wesley Harding is excruciatingly beautiful and ends with everyone dead.  
-Lil

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**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disaster-song/393116/63 "2007-02-28T13:29:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Jophiel]  
Add to that 10,000 Maniacs’ **Grey Victory**  
\*There was light and atomic fission  
Swelling wind, rising ash, tides of black rain  
Cement seared shadow traces  
Reminiscent of their last commands  
Instantly one thousand flames arising  
The ill scent of burning hides surrounding  
A settlement debased entirely

Enola Gay had made a casual delivery\*  
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And Oysterband’s **‘Six Grey Men’**

_In came the ghost of a lady gay  
With a little fat boy and this to say  
Because the sun is much too bright  
We will not let you sleep at night…_

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