Flashback: Nuclear Assault

It seems nearly prophetic. A song from the Cold War:

Nuclear Assault, “When Freedom Dies” (1989):

United in a time, a time of need
Against a common foe, the enemy.
The years of death endured, the years of pain
Against an evil force, a force not sane.

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security.

And then the world endured, a victory won
Against an insane man and his cohorts.
But once the war was done, blind fear prevailed
And years of darkness came, freedom was nailed.

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security.

We let our freedom die, we let it wane.
We feared an enemy’s atomic rain.
But what was on our minds, what we became:
We and the enemy,
We are the same.

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security.
We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security.