A Nuclear Blast

A Nuclear Blast is Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel's main menu theme. The music and lyrics were written by Craig Stuart Garfinkle and his wife, Eimear Noone. A looped, instrumental rendition can be faintly heard in the promotional Vault-tec video: "A Guide to Post-nuclear Intimacy."

Background
Craig Stuart Garfinkle was brought on to write the song for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. While usually partnering with a dedicated lyricist, this would be the first time writing lyrics himself.

Time and budgets were tight and after speaking with the games audio director, the lyrics came to him fairly quickly. Jack Segal is noted as one of his main inspirations.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] A lonely Electron, with nothing to do, Pairs up with a Neutron for a cocktail or two Atomic kisses, survived by a few, they had a...

[Hook] Nuclear Blast!

[Verse 2] Said the Electron to the Neutron, you sure can be dense With this much attraction there's no Civil Defense Let go of that energy, no need to be tense Give me that...

[Hook] Nuclear blast!

[Verse 3] Einstein said that space is elastic Twist his theory, it comes out bombastic A mushroom cloud, a sight fantastic Stick your head between your legs, kiss your ass goodbye

[Verse 4] A happy Electron, a Neutron its mate Don't give a damn about apocalyptic fate They'll party 'til midnight, then boom it's too late, it's a...

[Outro] Nuclear blast!