Hilltop Hoods - Fifty in five

Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement.
So, they spent a thousand nightimes in the desert
fighting something that they couldn't find,
that made it something that they couldn't find.
Left us all lamenting all the wrongs that they couldn't right.

This is for the second time, we've been here before.
From Vietnam to Saddam, we always needing a war.
Neo-Conservative rose up like Viet-cong,
their fingers on the trigger; we wont be here for long.

They killed MLK and then 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 he'd known: they tested nukes in the atmosphere, the sea and the dirt
and they tested all these missiles just to see if they'd work.

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 and armoured caravans.

Internet, 3G cellular phones, serial killers build 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, earth's cooking itself

And we cant look at ourselves,
so we got saline, botox, eighteen: fake tits; ninteen: detox
Don't 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, blue blocker, Tupac or Biggy,
East coast, West coast, Fat Joe or Fifty,
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 Costella, 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:
all's 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, ninteen eighty nine and a wall fell.
Cold war ended but that didn't stop more shells.
Waco lit up the sky, like burning oil wells.

A world laid waste with addiction.
Tell Orwell: truth's always stranger than fiction.
Big Brother's on closed circuit TV and on cable,
reality's now scripted, celebrities for sale.

Jeopary and jail, seized, deposed
Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's.
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 sexy
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!), cocaine (Nitro!),
Werewolf in London (American physco!)

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 pedophiles, they let em in the schools
Set em on the students, turn 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 can't 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.