Silent City

Steel skeletons of once-proud structures now empty and decayed
Metropolis scorched,destroyed in an instant, all who dwelled erased
Skin and bone vaporized, their voices silenced before they knew
Just what was happening to their city as the mushroom cloud grew

The unsuspecting city, now so black and cold
No signs of life, just the smell of death
Smoldering bones and ashes lie
Forever to remain in eternal rest

Instantaneous devastation
Widespread immolation
Ruins only now where once was life
To play for its sins the city died

An eerie silence now dominates this graveyard of the masses destroyed
No survivors are left to question the megaton tactics employed
If they had known just what they wrought beforehand they might have escaped
But as death fell from the sky there was no chance, it was too late

The unsuspecting city, now so black and cold
No signs of life, just the smell of death
Smoldering bones and ashes lie
Forever to remain in eternal rest

Instantaneous devastation
Widespread immolation
Ruins only now where once was life
To play for its sins the city died

Feelings of sorrow and remorse
Fill the hearts of those who hear
Of this wretched place of death
Which fill them with such fear
The creators of this devastation
Did what was required
There was no other alternative
Peace was bought by the ending of life

War machine stopped dead in its tracks by the crippling of its will
The likes of which yet unforeseen, a more efficient way to kill
The sound of wind and the scent of decay are now all that's left
The shadow looming over this land is the grinning spectre of death

The unsuspecting city, now so black and cold
No signs of life, just the smell of death
Smoldering bones and ashes lie
Forever to remain in eternal rest

Instantaneous devastation
Widespread immolation
Ruins only now where once was life
To play for its sins the city died