Modern-day alchemy Miracle technology Mankind's vanity To control the elements Catastrophic sinergy Circumstances collide Fate rears it's ugly head The infallible fails Play with fire You'll get burnt One step from the nuclear abyss Play with fire You'll get scorched Hell awaits at the flick of a switch A silent k**er Is riding the wind Penetrating cells The structures of life Invisible collapse Irreversible decay Everything it'll touch Shall return to dust Play with fire You'll get burnt One step from the nuclear abyss Play with fire You'll get scorched Hell awaits at the flick of a switch At the threshold of doom A recipe for disaster The ghost we summoned Can't be driven away At the threshold of doom One-way street to extinction The ghost we summoned Is here to stay The ghost we summoned Can't be driven away The ghost we summoned Is here ro stay Living under an imminent threat On the verge of disaster Seconds away from annihilation Through our own device Holding on the foolish belief Of our relative safety Forced to face the unspeakable Armageddon unleash At the threshold of doom A recipe for disaster The ghost we summoned Can't be driven away At the threshold of doom One-way street to extinction The ghost we summoned Is here to stay The ghost we summoned Is here to stay