Linda Allen - The Way the Wind Blew Lyrics
My name is not important, I'm 45 years oldI am dying slowly, the truth it must be toldI have children I had hoped to raise, work I hoped to doBut now my life is ended by the way the wind blewWashington's my home and I have lived here all my lifeMy father worked for Hanford for his children and his wifeHe never knew the winds he loved that blew across the plainCarried death as surely as a rain cloud carries rainThe wind it can blow softly as a mother with her childThe wind it can blow loudly; the wind it can blow wildBut the winds that frighten me the most are silent as the snowThe politicians know these winds and bend the way they blowWhen I was four, the plant put radiation in the windCalled the leak the Green Run--measured with their charts and pinsWho knows why they did it - it's classified you seeBut it killed a lot of friends of mine, and now it's killing meI knew my friends were dying - no one ever would say whyCancer was as common as the clouds up in the skyAnd some suspected Hanford - but the powers that beSaid the plant was safe and we were taught to believeChorusNow Hanford made the bomb that dropped on NagasakiBut it wasn't just those innocents who died so horriblyOur death has no meaning, it is hard and it is slowAnd it's the same damn government who's murdered us, you knowThe great Columbia River you see rolling alongCarried nuclear waste enough for two atom bombsThe cows who grazed this farmland, milk for daughters and for sonsCarried death as surely as a loaded gunChorusBut now the secret's coming out, and lawsuits there will beBut who can give me back the life they've taken now from me?I'm angry and I'm frightened and I'm tellin' youThe difference between us, my friend, is the way the wind blew
