[Verse 1]
Built the plant in ’53
Pike-ton, Ports-mouth, D-O-E
U-two thirty-five in the groundwater chain
Heavy metals riding rain

They cracked the pipes, they dropped the shell
Still denied what testing held
Open air, no cover in place
Children sick, no public case

[Chorus]
Atomic corruption
Filed it safe, never discussed
Records buried out of sight
You won’t find what they won’t write

Atomic corruption
Carried down the river bend
Crossed the state, you can’t pretend
This don’t poison in the end

[Verse 2]
Kids with cancer, no cause blamed
Schoolyard fallout left unclaimed
No swab, no test, no agency
Just buried under bureaucracy

They said too costly to contain
Then built a dump across the drain
Greenup, Scioto, same report filed
The fish are gone, blame climate change

[Chorus]
Atomic corruption
Signed and sealed, they walked away
Still the isotopes don’t stray
Bound to air, not bound to say

Atomic corruption
They marked five counties in the plan
Laughed at Kentucky’s open land
Told us hillbillies won’t understand

[Verse 3]
Technetium tracked fourteen miles
Same plant source, same toxic mile
Livermore marked it out at night
But D-O-E said never mind

Births came wrong, no press release
No study came, no state police
The river holds what they deny
The county carries every lie

[Final Chorus]
Atomic corruption
Open air across the fields
Science told them, never healed
Profit hides what power shields

Atomic corruption
It don’t thin and won’t forgive
Still inside the lives we live
This is not a claim
Atomic corruption it is

[Outro]
Atomic corruption
Atomic corruption
Atomic corruption it is