Trucks going by every day
risking the lives of the folks on the way
hauling tons and tons of plutonium
three hundred and fifty miles
Cargo of nuclear waste,
nuclear waste that can blow us away
and they keep on transporting more of it
for hundreds of miles – all likely to be defiled

WIPP was just a “pilot” program
It was never to be more
It was limited and short-term
It would close in ’24
Now they’re planning big expansion
with a deadlier-type waste
The potential for disaster
is expanding, too, apace

Everybody’s life at risk,
even people miles away
Radiation poisoning –
Will it kill us all someday?

Valentine Day was the day
Ten years ago radiation did blow
in the toxic waste in the underground –
a stupid mistake, they say
How many stupid mistakes?
How many ways do they threaten our lives?
And we still don’t have any guarantees
their stupid mistakes won’t happen again someday

Don’t make us a wasteland
No, no, don’t make us a wasteland
No, no, no, no, don’t make us a
nuclear wasteland, nuclear wasteland state