fifty in five
Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement
So they spent a thousand nighttimes in the desert fighting something
that they couldnt find
that made it something that they couldnt fight
Left us lamenting all the wrongs that they couldnt right
This is for the second time, weve been here before
From Vietnam to Saddam, we always needing a war
Neo-conservatives rose up like Viet Cong
Their fingers on the trigger, we wont be here long
They killed MLK and they named a day after him
They killed JFK and named an airport after him
Some guy shot a monster called Reagan so he could bone
a girl named Jodie Foster, if only hed known
We tested nukes in the atmosphere, the sea and the dirt
And they tested all these missiles just to see if they worked
Now France got em, Russia got em, India and Pakistan
Korea want em, States want em pointed at the Taliban
Iran and Afghanistan, sands of the Arab lands
Orders from portable commands in armoured caravans
Internet, 3G cellular phones
Serial killers built mini-cells in their homes
And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy, Son of Sam
Macarena, Superman, Chicken Dance, Running Man
Generation X and Generation Y
and the generation next will degenerate and die
cause we got holes in the Ozone that we put there ourselves
Now the poles are a no-go, earths cooking itself
And we cant look at ourselves so we got saline, Botox
Eighteen, fake tits, nineteen, detox
Dont stop, get it, get it, can't afford it? Get it credit
Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat? Then you better shed it
Ab Swing, Blublocker, 2Pac or Biggie
East coast, West coast, Fat Joe or 50
Thatcher the shifty Iron Lady, Tony Blair
A princess died, some say cause she got Dodi there
Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise
of no children in poverty, wish that could have been honest
We had Abbot and Costello, right wing overlords
Promises and children, they threw em both overboard
Overwrought refugees thrown to a group home
or jailed for the crime of looking for a new home
Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died, genocide
In Africa, Serbia, Cambodia, pesticides
Bio-toxins, chemical warfare
Alls fair in love and war, more work for the pallbearer
More terror, more unjust search and seizures
A tidal wave came and claimed the coast of Indonesia
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California
Greenhouse gas turned the world into a sauna
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters
of partners, mourners, fathers and daughters
They chased us, caught us, numbered us to sort us
Raped us, scorned us, to break us they bought us
third world kidneys for captains of industry
Uprising in the street, corruption in the ministry
A blowjob brought about the fall of a dynasty
And MP3s saw the fall of an industry
Doubled population, halved accommodation
Carved up resources and we starved the poorer nations
Beirut, Chechnya, all hell broke loose
Berlin, nineteen-eighty-nine man, the wall fell
Cold war ended but that didnt stop more shells
Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells
A world laid waste with addiction
Tell Orwell truths always stranger than fiction
Big Brothers on closed circuit TV and on cable
Realitys now scripted, celebrities for sale
Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed
Remedies and penalties for failed CEOs
We had the Enron collapse and white-collar crime
Investors they were taxed, a dollar for a dime
The blue chip companies and blue-sky mines
We no longer choose sides we choose sidelines
Rich bleeding the kind, blind leading the blind
And history repeats, no competing with time
Gasses eating the minds of the vets that they bring home
The plague of Agent Orange, Gulf War syndrome
Soldiers sent home, posttraumatic stress leave
STDs cause the sleeve aint ***y
AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper with a bowling ball
Metallica 'Kill Em All', let God scold em all
The Guildford Four, Chicago Seven
Mumia, Mandela, Oceans Eleven
Half past twelve on Friday the Thirteenth
Dawn of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Weapons free environment, war zone, phone home
Melanoma grow as we soak in the ozone
Home-grown, Hydro, *** ****, Nitro
Werewolf in London, American Psycho
Check, cyclones, bushfires, Bush firing scuds
Baby boomers, Woodstock, what happened to the love?
What happened to the cubs? They fed em to the wolves
Set a trial for paedophiles, they let em in the schools
Set em on the students, turned em on the kids
And everyone responsible should burn for what they did
And if they try to deny then an eye for an eye
The government and church on which we try to rely
both rob us till it hurts chasing lie after lie
like astronauts chasing a pie in the sky
They landed on the moon but cant seem to return there
Makes some question if they ever really were there
And if they were there now and they looked back
could we look them in the eye, could we look back?
Cause when we look back at what we have done
can you believe what we have become?
...
And as we walk into the sun
can you believe what we have become?
As we walk into the sun...
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