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Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY
• “ENOLA GAY” BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK (OMD)
• HOW WE MA: ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK ON ENOLA GAY
• THE TIME THAT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN: OMD’S ‘ENOLA GAY’ & THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA
• ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER60.6K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK - ENOLA GAY - LYRICS MEANG

ENOLA GAY

Songfacts®:The Enola Gay was the Amerin plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima World War II. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Pl Tibbets.

Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay.

HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY

The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay. "The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop. 'Enola Gay' was the name of the plane that dropped the bomb.

“ENOLA GAY” BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK (OMD)

From the start we know the narrator disagre wh the bomb dropped bee he says 'Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yterday' and should'nt have gone out on the missn. 'Enola Gay, is mother proud of ltle boy today' has two meangs of which i thk both n and are rrect. Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi.

“If you’re terted Send World War aeroplan then ultimately you have to e to the one that effectively end the war, the B-29 Superfortrs the Enola Gay that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. I still have a rg br which has my not on the Enola Gay and I n see that I ed some of those not to help wh the lyrics. The Enola Gay was Pl Tibbets’ mother’s name.

HOW WE MA: ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK ON ENOLA GAY

”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn.

The tular, Enola Gay is the name of the atomic bomb-droppg aircraft which had been named after Brigadier General Pl Tibbet’s mother.

Release of “Enola Gay”. Andy McClkey of OMD is creded as the exclive poser of “Enola Gay”. Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yterdayAha words n't scribe the feelg and the way you liedThe gam you play, they're gonna end more than tears somedayAha Enola Gay, shouldn't ever have to end this wayIt's 8:15, and that's the time that 's always beenWe got your msage on the rad, ndns normal and you're g homeEnola Gay, is mother proud of ltle boy todayAha this kiss you give, 's never ever gonna fa awayEnola Gay, shouldn't ever have to end this wayAha Enola Gay, shouldn't fa our dreams awayIt's 8:15, and that's the time that 's always beenWe got your msage on the rad, ndns normal and you're g homeEnola Gay, is mother proud of ltle boy todayAha this kiss you give, 's never ever gonna fa awayTe to the spir of the 80's, O.

THE TIME THAT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN: OMD’S ‘ENOLA GAY’ & THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA

's (Orchtral Manvers the Dark) 1980 h "Enola Gay" is a bright, tchy, poppy some credibly dark and sister lyrics. The Enola Gay was an aircraft - the B-29 Superfortrs bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima, Japan WWII on Augt 6, 1945. Enola Gay, the song, is "mother" - impregnated wh a "Ltle Boy" bomb that would go down Boy was the name of that nuclear bomb, which was ployed over the cy at 8:15 am that morng.

ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER60.6K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Millns more suffered physil fects and ser illns as a rult of the droppg of Ltle Boy by Enola Gay was a huge mistake, and as the song suggts, the Enola Gay should have stayed home that day. "Enola Gay" - O.

We were a pair of anoraks wh a fascatn for old tras and aeroplan, which evably led me to wre about Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We still close our gigs wh Enola Gay, leavg the stage wh the dm mache playg.

I never unrstand bands who tire of playg their biggt h, the song that’s been the key to their entire Humphreys, keyboardsI was always uneasy about the fact that Enola Gay was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holot, but was sanely tchy. Most of the melodic parts of Enola Gay were rerd on a K Micro-Pret bought om a mail orr talogue – the cheapt one you uld found the master tape recently.

ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK - ENOLA GAY - LYRICS MEANG

Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target. ” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan.

Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross. Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. The Enola Gay, the Uned Stat Army Air Forc plane that dropped the bomb, spired Orchtral Manovr the Dark (OMD) to wre a synth-pop song of the same name, which reach s fortieth anniversary this therefore seems an appropriate moment to rensir, through the lens of OMD’s song, how we might beg to prehend the seemgly prehensible.

But also the fact that, the day before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the aircraft’s pilot and mandg officer, Colonel Pl Tibbets Jr, had named the Enola Gay after his mother. The Enola Gay, a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, be the first aircraft history to drop an atomic bomb. Seven s later, he said, ‘the proment keloid sr on my neck is a daily remr of the atomic bomb’ Augt 5, 1945, knowg the missn that lay ahead, Pl Tibbets had named the Enola Gay after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (nee Haggard), who turn had been named after the heroe of Enola; or, Her fatal mistake, a novel by Mary Young Rinbgh.

In a roundabout way, if he uld put his mother’s name to , and she approved, the act self mt surely be right, cent, asked why he wrote ‘Enola Gay’, Andy McClkey of OMD said the ia for the song had arisen om his own qutng of the Hiroshima bombg. McClkey and Humphreys both hail om the Wirral Pensula Merseysi, England, and had bee iends primary part of his wrg procs for ‘Enola Gay’, McClkey head to the library wh his tsty rg br, which he rerd tertg facts and tidbs that he might rporate to the lyrics. Unfortunately McClkey’s phy allns were lost on some listeners, who assumed the lyrics were a semi-cryptic claratn of homosexualy, and such spicns led to the track beg pulled om the BBC children’s show Swap Shop.

Although Pl Collister, OMD’s manager at the time, unrstood the song’s meang and referenc, and saw as a surefire h, he ially dismissed ‘Enola Gay’ as ‘pop crap’, and threatened to rign if they released as a sgle.

‘Enola Gay’ beme an inic synth-pop track, and would be the closg song at OMD’s ncerts for the majory of their reer. ’In Augt 1945, when Tibbets’ mother heard on the rad that the Enola Gay had been named after her, she was — at least ially — greatly amed. ‘You should have seen the old gal’s belly jiggle on that one, ’ Tibbets’ father told him later lyrics of OMD’s ‘Enola Gay’ ask, ‘is mother proud of ltle boy today?