Blossom And Blood Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jkw 

Cover art for Blossom And Blood lyrics by Midnight Oil

the first stanza paraphrases attaturk's words on the monument at anzac cove in gallipoli, turkey. but the main focus is on the bombing of hiroshima. the species deceases ep was recorded in 1985, 40 years after the bomb. the force of the atomic bomb was so great that people's shadows were burned into the ground, "these sidewalk silhouettes not washed away." every time a country detonates an atomic bomb, the current mayor of hiroshima sends them a letter.... it's the price of peace to remember.