Lyrics
[verse]
High above the sleeping city, engines cutting through the dawn
Carrying a weight of history nobody could take back once it's gone
They named you for a mother's love, a gentle word for something cruel
The sky remembers everything the history books forget to tell
[chorus]
Enola Gay, why did you fly away
Enola Gay, what did you carry that day
The world below would never be the same
Enola Gay, they whispered your name
[verse]
Down beneath the clouds a city woke up like any other morning
Children walking to their lessons, mothers hanging clothes to dry
Nobody could see you coming, nobody could hear the warning
Just a shadow and a silence, and a century that had to ask why
[chorus]
Enola Gay, why did you fly away
Enola Gay, what did you carry that day
The world below would never be the same
Enola Gay, they whispered your name
[bridge]
History keeps score in ash and silence
We keep singing so we don't forget the science
Of what we're capable of building
And what it costs when the fire starts falling
[chorus]
Enola Gay, why did you fly away
Enola Gay, what did you carry that day
The world below would never be the same
Enola Gay, they whispered your name
