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[based on passages from the Bhagavad Gita spoken by Krishna,
and a misquotation by J. Robert Oppenheimer
upon seeing the first nuclear explosion]

I AM BECOME DEATH song lyrics
by Joel Sattler


I am all-powerful Time
time which destroyeth all things
and I have come to slay
this is what I bring

Even if thou doest not fight
all those who shall face thee shall die
no one can escape their fate
there are none with more power than I

I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds
I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds

Through the fate of their Karma
I have brought them to doom
thou are merely the means of my work
the mushroom cloud in bloom

By my grace and my wondrous power
I have shown thee this form made of light
which is Infinite from the beginning
with all things unborn in the night

Thou hast seen the form of my greatness,
but be not bewildered or fear
for I am the friend of your ending
and with me all things become clear

I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds
I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds

Now thou hast met face to face
my form divine and in grace
for even the gods in heaven they long
to see what thou sees in your place

Only by love am I known
and only by love may you see
and in the ending of ends
in truth thou must come to me

I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds
I am become death
death the destroyer of worlds

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