Lyrics
When the bomb drops I'll be a bank holiday
Anticipating a catastrophic event, the speaker envisions enjoying a day off during a bank holiday.
Everybody happy in their tents andcaravans
People finding joy and contentment in simple pleasures like camping, unaware of impending disaster.
Everybody happy in their ignorance and apathy
People blissfully ignorant and indifferent to important matters, consumed by their own comfort and disinterest.
Nobody realises until
A realization dawning on people, but it's too late.
Their television breaks down
People only becoming aware of the situation when their source of information (TV) fails.
The voices of the poeople are going unheard
The voices and concerns of the ordinary people are being ignored.
But
An abrupt transition to emphasize a contrast or contradiction.
They got nothing to say 'cause they're deaf and dumb
The authorities or those in power are speechless and indifferent, focused on materialism.
Too concerned with money
A critique of society's obsession with wealth.
Luxury adultery
Reference to moral corruption, possibly infidelity driven by luxury and excess.
Complacency and politics and apathy will never mix
Expressing that complacency, politics, and apathy are incompatible.
When the
Continuation, building anticipation for the impending disaster.
Bomb drops they'll be a 4 minute warning
Referring to an official warning before the bomb drops.
Three minutes of anarchy and one of
Describing the brief chaos and subsequent hopelessness during the catastrophe.
Blind futility
Highlighting the futile nature of survival efforts after the bomb drops.
No-one left alive and no chances to survive
Painting a grim picture of the aftermath, with no survivors and no hope.
You've heard it all
Addressing the listener directly, insisting that this message is important and should not be ignored.
Before-but I'm telling you once more
Reiterating the urgency of the message, emphasizing that it has been said before.
To forget is to forgive but there'snothing to forget
Suggesting that forgiveness requires forgetting, but in this case, there is nothing to forget.
I ain't forgotrten how to live and it hasn't happened [yet]
The speaker hasn't forgotten how to live, and the catastrophic event has not occurred yet.
They'll drop the bomb for somthing to do can't remember what it's for
The dropping of the bomb is portrayed as a thoughtless action, done for lack of anything better to do.
But Iain't forgot hiroshima
A personal reference to not forgetting the historical tragedy of Hiroshima.
I ain't forgot the war
Continued remembrance of past wars and their impact.
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