[Verse 1]
They're hosing down trucks at the border
Under a rainbow sign
Raindrops falling on my head
Burn into my mind
On a hillside in the distance
There's a patch of green sunshine

[Chorus]
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame, yeah
About the radium rain

[Verse 2]
Everyday in the paper
You can watch the numbers rise
No such event can overtake us here
We're much too wise
In the meantime don't eat anything that grows
And don't breathe when the cars go by

[Chorus]
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain
[Verse 3]
Big motorcycle rumbles out of the rain
Like some creation of the mist
There's a man on a roof with a blindfold on
And a hand grenade in his fist
I walk stiff, with teeth clenched tight
Filled with nostalgia for a clean wind's kiss

[Chorus]
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain

[Verse 4]
A flock of birds writes something on the sky
In a language I can't understand
It's God's graffiti—but it don't say why
So much evil seems to land on man
When everyone I meet just wants to live and love
And get along as best they can

[Chorus]
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
About the radium rain