Fifty In Five - Hilltop Hoods

Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement

So they spent a thousand nighttimes in the desert fighting something

That they couldn’t find, that made it something that they couldn’t fight

Left us 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 needin' a war

Neo-conservatives rose up like Viet Cong

Their fingers on the trigger, we won’t be here for 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 he’d 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, earth’s cooking itself

And we can’t look at ourselves so we got saline, Botox

Eighteen, fake tits, nineteen, 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

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 Abbott 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

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, nineteen-eighty-nine man, the wall fell

Cold war ended but that didn’t stop more shells

Waco lit up the sky like burnin' 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

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, post-traumatic stress leave

STDs 'cause the sleeve ain’t 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,

Ocean’s 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 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 chasin' 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