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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, 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 for 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 a€?em, Russia got a€?em, India and Pakistan,
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Korea want a€?em, States want a€?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 armored 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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Cos we got holes in the Ozone that we put there ourselves,
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Now the poles are a no-go, earths 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, Blue Blocker, Tupac or Biggie,
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East coast, west coast, Fat Joe or Fifty,
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Thatcher the shifty iron lady, Tony Blair,
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A princess died, some say cos 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 a€?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 MP3's 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,
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Broke loose, 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, celebrity's for sale,
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Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed,
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Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's.
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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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STD's cos 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 a€?em, let god scold a€?em all,
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The Guildford Four, Chicago Seven,
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Mumia, Mandela, Oceans Eleven,
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