[Intro]
Radioactive Hudson runs, 
Indian Point, the record done. 
Sixty years along the bend, 
the plant is closed but not the end. 

[Verse 1] 
The Hudson bore the daily waste, 
outfalls hidden, years erased. 
Permits signed, the crowd objected, 
federal law kept it protected. 
Now Holtec owns the site entire, 
fuel and waste, a slow expire. 
Forty-five thousand gallons stored, 
the court unlocked the outlet door. 

[Chorus] 
Radioactive Hudson, heard in court, 
Holtec claims the dose is short. 
Forty-five thousand gallons sent away, 
the Hudson bears it day by day. 

[Verse 2] 
The state declared, the bill was passed, 
Save the Hudson, make it last. 
But Holtec sued, the bench complied, 
the NRC will now decide. 

A law once meant to guard this stream, 
was overruled in legal scheme. 
Dolphins surfaced, sturgeon swam, 
millirem counts can’t show their path.

[Chorus]
Radioactive Hudson, heard in court, 
Holtec claims the dose is short. 
Forty-five thousand gallons sent away, 
the Hudson bears it day by day. 

[Bridge] 
They call it common, done before, 
wastewater carried to the shore. 
Millirem tallies claim it small, 
but none of that explains it all. 
The irony sharp, the ruling clear, 
rights revised to serve Holtec here. 

[Final Chorus]
Radioactive Hudson, heard in court, 
Holtec claims the dose is short. 
Forty-five thousand gallons sent away, 
the Hudson bears it day by day. 
Save the Hudson, the voices call, 
the river bears the weight of all. 

[Outro] 
From Buchanan to the bay, 
families live with what they say. 
Sixty years the plant was run, 
the Hudson keeps what’s been undone.