This Is Not A Test - Tommy Shaw

Familiar sound

We’ve heard it all our lives

Who paid attention

Then the radio announcer tells us This has been a test

I never heard the rest

I always changed the station

Mr. President our radar shows

An image in the skies

And we believe it’s headed our

Direction

The Russians aren’t responding

And we’re up against the clock

It seems there’s no avoiding

This deadly confrontation

And this is not a test

No video effect

No science fiction quest for glory

And this is not a test

There’ll be no turning back

The hour is at hand

And this is not a test

You can ignore

We’ve not been here before

Let’s hear it for the war

How did peace and freedom

Disappear before our very eyes

And leave us in this desperate situation

There is no way to justify

For country or for God

The heavens are a battlefield

And now this confrontation