The Sound of the Alarm Songtext
von Strauss ex Machina

A distant power plant
Built from scrap metal from the war
I′m on the graveyard shift
I'm all alone, close to the core

Caught in a lab, in a maintenance room is where I dwell
Splitting atoms for a living... hell

I hear a distant noise
Some crucial levels have been reached
On the surveillance screen
The primary containment has been breached

(And the warning message goes something like this)

There is a partial core melt
There′s a disaster close at hand
The cooling systems
Are too unstable
And there are things here that I really should disarm
Before the sound of the alarm


A lockdown sequence rolls
The mainframe's going bluescreen and then blank
I feel a sudden cold
And strange vibrations from that septic tank

My radiation suit
Is full of holes and doesn't fit
This place does not compute
And finally I think it′s time to quit

Which won′t happen 'cause the place is going down

I watch the cracking walls
And big machines falling apart
The banging water hammers
Hold with the beating of my heart
As the fallout might really do me harm
I hear the sound of the alarm

Caught in lab in a massive heap of debris
Crushed by junk and I can′t break free

Not going anywhere!
I'm out of options, out of time
I′m running out of air
The pipes around are leaking with slime
(Some glowing stuff I usually do not touch)


I feel the water boil
Somehow I don't feel any fear
This radioactive coil
Is signalling the end of my career

I sing the meltdown countdown
In a few minutes I′ll be toast
Level seven
I'm gonna roast
But like the captain on a sinking ship I am staying on my post
And I go nuclear as the skin melts on my arm
To the sound of the alarm

To the sound of the alarm