We are talking about Enola Gay, a song on which honestly the record company and also some O.M.D. members placed hopes but also many doubts. The song is a very clear reference to the atomic bomb launch on Hiroshima, which took place on August 6, 1945. Of course it is an anti-war song, and the intent of the frontman Andy McCluskey and his teammates was to make us think if really that action was necessary, as well as warfare in general. Were passionate about aviation, and put a series of references to that mission in the lyrics.Įnola Gay was the name of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb. Commander Paul Tibbets named his plane after his mother’s name, which was precisely Enola Gay Tibbets. So the verse saying that Enola Gay should have stayed at home that morning begins to make sense. There is a reference to a time in a cryptic verse which says “it is 8.15 / And that’s the time that it’s always been”, but the reference becomes clear and powerful when we remember that the bomb exploded in the sky over Hiroshima at that very hour. Due to the effects of the explosion the clocks that were not completely destroyed stopped, marking 8.15 forever. it is summed up in the doubt that is placed in the text, whether the mother is really proud of little boy today. A very clear play on words, if we think that “Little Boy” was the code name of the bomb device.
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