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