This song is about Fritz Haber and the subsequent Haber-Bosch method, which was a method used to create synthetic ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen. It was also a significant player in the development of non-projectile use of chemical warfare. Haber also led the team which developed gasses such as...
[Verse 1]
Long ago in eastern Prussia
Young men with great ambitions rise
So who can tell me who can say for sure
Which one will win the Nobel Prize?
It was a golden age for science
The Kaiserreich would hold the key
And as the conflict came and tensions rose
The manifest of the '93
[Pre-Chorus]
Haber-Bosch, the great alliance
Where's the contradiction?
Fed the world by ways of science
Sinner or a saint?
[Chorus]
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfarе
His dark creation has been revealеd
Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
[Verse 2]
"Perversions of ideals of science"
Lost words of alienated wife
And in the trenches of the western front
Unknowing soldiers pay the price
And on the battlefield they're dying
And on the fields the crops are grown
So who can tell us what is right or wrong
Maths or morality alone?
[Pre-Chorus]
Haber-Bosch, the great alliance
Where's the contradiction?
Fed the world by ways of science
Sinner or a saint?
[Chorus]
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare
His dark creation has been revealed
Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare
His dark creation has been revealed
Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
[Post-Chorus]
During times when there's peace he belonged to the world
During times when there's war he belonged to his place of birth
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Where will this lead?
What's coming next
From your inventions?
We wonder where
Where does it end?
Who can foresee
See what will be?
[Pre-Chorus]
Haber-Bosch, the great alliance
Where's the contradiction?
Fed the world by ways of science
Sinner or a saint?
[Chorus]
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare
His dark creation has been revealed
Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare
His dark creation has been revealed
Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare
A deadly mist on the battlefield
Father was written by Joakim Brodén.
Father was produced by Jonas Kjellgren.