[Verse 1]
They built a dam with silt and clay
A thirty-five foot wall to hold decay
No liner laid beneath the fill
Just unreinforced terrain and will

[Verse 2]
At 5 A.M., the wall gave way
A geyser formed, no time delay
Red Water Pond received the flood
With livestock down and tainted mud

[Pre-Chorus]
Inspections filed, the cracks ignored
Reports delayed, no funds restored
The signs in English, posted late
No native script, no time to translate

[Chorus]
Hallelujah to the buried drum
Where 94 million gallons run
Solid waste and acid blend
Pushed downstream with no defense
It’s the Church Rock promenade
And they’d rather you forget it happened

[Bridge]
Crack reports: 1977
Inspection: October ‘78
Three Mile Island: March ‘79
Church Rock spill: July the same
Cleanup: 1 percent retrieved
Dam reused. 
Mill re-opened.

[Verse 3]
Animals fell, their organs changed
The culvert twisted in the drain
The payout came in paper form
Two thousand each, below the norm

[Pre-Chorus]
Radiation levels spiked and fell
But cancer rates still climb and dwell
No formal charge, no legal stand
Just sealed reports and salted land

[Chorus]
Hallelujah to the zoned-off land
Where settlements failed to meet demand
The records show a curve suppressed
But industry insists it passed the test
It’s the Church Rock promenade
And they’d rather you forget it happened

[Outro]
Forget it happened, forget it happened
Water rose and rules flattened
No alarms, no case retained
Just background dose they left unnamed

So.
Hallelujah! to the buried drum
Where 94 million gallons run
Solid waste and acid blend
Pushed downstream with no defense
It’s the Church Rock promenade
And they’d rather you forget it happened