[verse 1]
Paper suits and white caps blur their features
as they step onto the refueling floor.
They call it a renaissance,
but the intake readings disagree.
They cite metrics from the NRC,
yet the equipment shifts off mark
as the floor runs hotter than planned.

[verse 2]
They talk about “big things,”
but instruments here outdate the crew inspecting them.
They praise physics over emotion,
though the river rejects their forecasts.
Their doctrine demands momentum,
as if supply bends to belief
or Wigner shifts because they insist.

[chorus]
This is the Failed Nuclear Priesthood,
promising revival in a room patched with revisions.
Their baseload line drops
whenever water climbs past limit.
They point at rivals and phantom threats,
but fault runs through their own order—
a vow built for permanence
set against a world that won’t stay fixed.

[verse 3]
They present compact reactors as settled fact,
stacking assurances like units
that never reach verified startup.
They repeat the tech is “ready,”
though entries in their system
sit under provisional rules.
They praise supply as destiny,
ignoring the assembly behind them
locking into another unresolved state.

[bridge]
The louder their declarations,
the more machinery replies in broken sequences.
Their delivery hardens,
but the housing weakens under years of load.
A trainee works a control that won’t respond;
a senior reports the anomaly
in a record no successor will inherit.

[chorus]
This is the Failed Nuclear Priesthood,
promising revival in a room patched with revisions.
Their baseload line drops
whenever water climbs past limit.
They point at rivals and phantom threats,
but fault runs through their own order—
a vow built for permanence
set against a world that won’t stay fixed.

[big finish]
Let them rehearse certainty
before equipment that refuses to cooperate.
The river writes the outcome
in heat marks across the intake floor.
A nuclear joke of the unraveling,
and a priesthood
that confused confidence with capability.
Failed Nuclear Priesthood,
Failed Nuclear Priesthood,
(Failed Nuclear Priesthood)