Rush Lyrics

Album: Chronicles

Manhattan Project Lyrics

Imagine a time when it all began

 In the dying days of a war

 A weapon that would settle the score

 Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst

 They always had before...

 

 Imagine a man where it all began

 A scientist pacing the floor

 In each nation, always eager to explore

 To build the best big stick

 To turn the winning trick

 But this was something more...

 

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 The big bang took and shook the world

 Shot down the rising sun

 The end was begun and it hit everyone

 When the chain reaction was done

 The big shots tried to hold it back

 Fools tried to wish it away

 The hopeful depend on a world without end

 Whatever the hopeless may say

 

 Imagine a place where it all began

 Gathered from across the land

 To work in the secrecy of the desert sand

 All of the brightest boys

 To play with the biggest toys

 More than they bargained for...

 

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 Imagine a man when it all began

 The pilot of 'Enola Gay'

 Flying out of the shockwave on that August day

 All the powers that be, and the course of history

 Would be changed forevermore...