Ani DiFranco - The Atom (03.11.2008) Tampa video

Ani's thought-provoking response to the folks who want to teach the miracle of Creation as science, but have no qualms about manipulating nature into the abomination of nuclear arms and power. Tampa Theatre, March 2008. This track is on Ani's upcoming album Red Letter Year to be released September 2008 from www.righteousbabe.com the glory of the atom begs a reverent word the primary design of the whole universe let us sing its praises let us bow our heads in prayer at the magnificent consciousness incarnate there the smallest unit of matter with its orbiting electrons echoing off the solar system like a hawk in the hills at dawn the smallest unit of matter uniting bird and rock and tree and you and me oh holy is the atom the truly intelligent design to which all of evolution is graciously aligned the one single structure to which everything distills the air, the wood smoke there, and the hills oh leave me here surrounded by everything that's real far outside the boundaries of the digitized ordeal leave me here awake leave me here to heal human beings are a cross between monkeys and ants you can see us from your spaceship melting the polar ice caps with our arrogance summon a congress of angels dressed in riot gear we've got ourselves a serious situation down here i had a great great uncle who worked on the atomic bomb he got a nobel prize in physics and a place in this song and i bet there were no windows and no women in the room when they applied themselves to the pure ...