[Verse 1]
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Maybe it's too complicated, maybe it's a minefield
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Maybe it's like someone else's murder, it's not quite real
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Buried page 10 of today's paper
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Read about another road rage of a crazed teenager
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The mother gives the vox grab saying she's just
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sad, and all the justice in the world won't bring her daughter back
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flavour of the 48 hours til the news finds another
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utter tragedy to increase the views
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And you still never know if you've reached the truth
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30 seconds to a minute and you're in it up to the tips of your toes
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and the truth can be a dodgy uncle
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Media moguls and leaders act like Simon & Garfunkle
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The, right wing squarks for yet more hawks
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And the, left wing calls for yet more peace talks
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And many people left are asking who to believe
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Cos reality is as muddy as token olive leaves
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And apparently you can't wear your heart on your sleeve
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Cos the menace is too distant for listeners to grieve
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And even umm, I've been numbed til the cartoon alternative
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Just trying to learn to live
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[Chorus #1]
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Kigali
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Chechnya
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Lebanon
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Woomera
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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[Verse 2]
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Try as I might I cannot get my head around the
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Hutus slaughtering the Tutsis in Rwanda one-nine-nine-four
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And then on top to comprehend how the United Nations
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let it happen with their blue helmets armed by the door
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Eight hundred thousand in less than
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Ninety days, is Africa just too far away
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Or is the genocide convention only mentioned in connection
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With the Nazis and the Jews during World War Two
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Cos your world views seen through the same few that drew
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Their bloody colonial maps for custodial taxes
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Historical pacts, treaties and age-old arrangements ignore
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In order for the dominant order to be restored
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Warlords, dictators, puppet regimes installed
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While cold wars and old walls did fall
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Wars on drugs and wars on terror
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Later on there'll be concessions made by governments of intelligence errors
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Is to understand to simplify? Black and white, good
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and bad, learn not to sympathise unless it's of an allied flag
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I'll be damned if my land is the fifty-first state
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Both a realist and idealist on the same day
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[Chorus #2]
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Vietnam
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Sierra Leone
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Zimbabwe
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Bosnia
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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[Verse 3]
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It's not a soapbox, or at least I hope not
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These are things that affect me so much they're what I dream of
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Dream of different endings where lessons are learnt
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Before good and bad were copyright foreign policy terms
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Before hip hop was either barbeque or bling
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Before it seemed like everyone was operated by string
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So align yourself, define yourself, design yourself
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With any luck your life will all work out
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And you won't find yourself the victim of an effort to ethnically cleanse
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Left to defend the rest of these men
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women and children, from rape, pillage and killing cos
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every evil got it's coalition of the goddamn willing
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so forgive me if I can't give you something to laugh to
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This is for you to argue, shake your mind and arse to
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It's for me to ask you just who can you trust
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dust to dust, and if tomorrow is us? What if...
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[Chorus #3]
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Kashmir
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Guam
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Kabul
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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San Salvador
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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Gaza Strip
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It's just a distant sense of random menace
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East Timor
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It's just a distant sense of random menace...
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Distant Sense Of Random Menace
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| Urthboy |
