This song is a direct indictment of the decisions that led to this legacy. It asks the haunting question, "What did you think would happen?" The lyrics trace the path of destruction from the forests and people who died then, to the children "born broken, born twisted, born dying" years later. It's an indictment of a war that never truly ended, where the wages of sin continue to be paid by generation after generation.

This song tells the story from the perspective of the descendants. We are the "Orange Canaries"—the living warning signs of a danger that was ignored. The lyrics speak to the inherited trauma, the mystery illnesses ("The doctors ask but don't know why or how"), and the legacy of a poison that was "breathed in" by our grandfathers and "brought home somehow." It's a lament for a burden we didn't ask for, but also a declaration of strength: "The pain may be our burden, but not our shame."