Yellowcake Lyrics

Lyric discussion by trypticsoyagar 

Cover art for Yellowcake lyrics by Kaki King

the atomic bomb explosion makes so much sense! also, i hear "it can hardly be conceived" rather than "it can hardly become seen"

the "it" in "it appears" could be the appearance of the explosion the radiation will "come to you"

uranium is there, it is there in the earth like "diamonds deep" the processing of uranium "can hardly be conceived" but because the laws of physics are universal, and because atomic bombs are supposedly not that hard to build, an atomic bomb is still possible to make.

i see it as during the atomic bomb explosion, instead of being scared and curling up into a fetal position, rather to "open yourself" and accept your mortality, and "become the light you see"

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