Jill Carole Sings ... Ground Zero

	Ground Zero

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I started this song in the shower. I wrote it back when the world was attempting to sign a nuclear test ban treaty, but France wouldn't cooperate. They insisted on exploding two more bombs in the Tuamotu atoll in "paradisical" Polynesia. (I love to snorkel, but will probably never head toward Tahiti because of my fear of fallout).

Anyway, somehow this landscape was living in my subconscious, and during my shampooing, I adopted the metaphor to create what I call "my nuclear love story." It's about a man's anger never being expressed in a relationship. These resentments become ammunition eventually, and "like the French," he drops this bomb that ends the relationship, this couple's island.

On another note, I also think "Ground Zeros" is a lovely name for a tasty breakfast cereal.

Ground Zero

Ground Zero
That's where I stand
Ground Zero
Bob De Niro would've shook his head
When I lost the line
And couldn't cry

Ground Zero
Get a ringside seat
Spit zone
I know exactly what the neighbors think
It's the second time I've died

T-ticking
He s-says I lost my chance to change
But if I could knock on wood
Click three times
It never does no good
Is it too late?
D-detonate
He seen it coming
Explosion

Ground Zero 
That's where we got
Ground Zero
Are you a hero
Or an astronaut circling in the sky?

T-ticking
T-t-t-t...like my metronome
And all the time
I couldn't buy
Like Tuamotu
Don't look me in the eye
And like the French
You move upwind
You seen it coming
Explosion

Ground Zero
Take some turpentine
Erase
Pentimento of the northern lights
The fallout never dies

T-ticking
T-t-t-t...like my metronome
And come the crowds
The mushroom cloud
To indicate what you can't say aloud
And like the French
You move upwind
You seen it coming
Exploexploexplosion

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