The empire burns

The umpire's not laughing

The president's resented,

The ambassadors's a night club

You cannot get it out

It's stuff you cannot taste or see

It's stuff you cannot smell

It's stuff that's twenty times as hot

As the hottest stuff in hell

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The plant is melting down

The people out in Harrisburg

Are getting out of town

And when this stuff gets in

You cannot get it out

The company said it would not blow

The government said it might

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I wonder who is right

Who can leave it behind, the curtains are drawn

There's something I must say to you

You cannot get it out