sleepy city in the midnight calm all awoken by death s alarm frenzied panic everyone s in shock search lights show the coming of the iron flock blockbusters falling down like rain birds of steel deliver death and pain chorus blackout when the sirens sound bombs be fallin y all you better get down blackout all over town woman and children go down in the ground blackout dictators and terror kings invade us with their war machines nowhere to run nowhere to go think we re gonna lay down and die ya cry hell no man the cannons and open fire flames of war burning higher and higher chorus blackout when the sirens sound yeah the blitz is coming oh the blitz is coming blackout all over town armageddon coming yeah armageddon coming blackout there s gonna be a blackout 