Fifty In Five chords by Hilltop Hoods

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

♫ Intro:

A minorAm Am7Am7 FM7 E MajorE E/G#  (x2)


♫ Verse 1:
A minorAm
Terror cleared the skyline
  Am7Am7
and anger clouded judgement
    FM7
So they spent a thousand night times
    E MajorE        E/G#
In the desert fighting something
     A minorAm
that they couldn't find
       Am7Am7
That made it something that

they couldn't fight
FM7
Left us all lamenting, all the
E MajorE        E/G#
wrongs that they couldn't right
A minorAm
This is for the second time
      Am7Am7
that we've been here before
     FM7
From Vietnam to Saddam,
     E MajorE      E/G#
we always needing a war
A minorAm           Am7Am7
Neo Conservatives rose up like Viet Cong
N.C
Their fingers on the trigger,

we won't be here for long


♫ Verse 2:
   A minorAm       Am7Am7
They killed MLK and named a day

after him
   FM7
They killed JFK and named an
E MajorE    E/G#
airport after him
   A minorAm            Am7Am7
Some guy shot a monster called Reagan

so he could bone
 FM7
A augmentedA girl named Jodie Foster,
  E MajorE     E/G#
if only he'd known
     A minorAm
We tested nukes in the atmosphere,
  Am7Am7
the sea and the dirt
     FM7
And they tested all these missiles
    E MajorE      E/G#
just to see if they worked

♫ Verse 3:
  A minorAm
Now France got 'em, Russia got 'em,
Am7Am7
India and Pakistan
 FM7
Korea want 'em, States want 'em,
E MajorE       E/G#
pointed at the Taliban
 A minorAm
Iran and Afghanistan,
Am7Am7
sands of the Arab lands
FM7           E MajorE
Orders from portable commands in
     E/G#
armoured caravans
A minorAm      Am7Am7
Internet, 3G cellular phones
    FM7        E MajorE
Serial killers built mini-cells
     E/G#
in their homes


♫ Verse 4:
      A minorAm       Am7Am7
And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy,

Son of Sam
FM7         E MajorE
Macarena, Superman, Chicken Dance,
E/G#
Running Man
A minorAm        Am7Am7
Generation X and Generation Y
    FM7
And the generation next will
  E MajorE      E/G#
degenerate and die
       A minorAm
'Cause we got holes in the ozone
    G+G
that we put there ourselves

Now the poles are a no-go,
    B minorBm    C majorC
earth's cooking itself


♫ Verse 5:
       A minorAm
And we can't look at ourselves
     Am7Am7      FM7
So we got saline, botox, eighteen,
      E MajorE     E/G#
fake tits, nineteen, detox
A minorAm
Don't stop, get it, get it,
Am7Am7
can't afford it, get it credit
FM7                E MajorE
Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat
     E/G#
When you better shed it!


♫ Verse 6:
A minorAm           Am7Am7
AbAb Swing, Blue Blocker, Tupac or Biggie
FM7           E MajorE     E/G#
East Coast, West Coast, Fat Joe or Fifty
A minorAm          Am7Am7
Thatcher, the shifty Iron Lady, Tony Blair
 FM7         E MajorE
A augmentedA princess died, some say
        E/G#
'cause she got Dodi there
A minorAm        Am7Am7
Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise of
  FM7
No children in poverty,
     E MajorE        E/G#
wish that could have been honest


♫ Verse 7:
    A minorAm
We had Abbott and Costello,
Am7Am7
right wing overlords
FM7
Promises and children,
   E MajorE       E/G#
they threw 'em both overboard
A minorAm          Am7Am7
Overwrought refugees thrown to a group home
  FM7
Or jailed for the crime of
E MajorE       E/G#
looking for a new home


♫ Verse 8:
A minorAm            Am7Am7
Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died
      FM7
Genocide in Africa, Serbia,
  E MajorE   E/G#
Cambodia, pesticides
A minorAm     Am7Am7
Bio-toxins, chemical warfare
FM7
All's fair in love and war,
   E MajorE      E/G#
more work for the pallbearer
A minorAm         Am7Am7
More terror, more unjust

search and seizures
 FM7
A augmentedA tidal wave came and claimed the
E MajorE      E/G#
coast of Indonesia


♫ Verse 9:
A minorAm        Am7Am7
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California
FM7
Greenhouse gas turned the
E MajorE      E/G#
world into a sauna
  A minorAm         Am7Am7
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters
  FM7        E MajorE
Of partners, mourners fathers
  E/G#
and daughters
   A minorAm
They chased us, caught us,
Am7Am7
numbered us to sort us
FM7
Raped us, scorned us,
  E MajorE       E/G#
to break us they bought us
A minorAm           Am7Am7
Third world kidneys for captains

of industry
FM7
Uprising in the street,
 E MajorE        E/G#
corruption in the ministry
 A minorAm            Am7Am7
A augmentedA blowj*b brought about the fall

of a dynasty
  FM7      E MajorE     E/G#
And MP3's saw the fall of an industry


♫ Verse 10:
A minorAm         Am7Am7
Doubled population, halved accommodation
FM7
Carved up resources and we
E MajorE         E/G#
starved the poorer nations
A minorAm        Am7Am7
Beirut, Chechnya, all hell broke loose
FM7           E MajorE
Berlin, nineteen eighty nine, man,
  E/G#
the wall fell
A minorAm
Cold war ended but that
Am7Am7
didn't stop more shells
FM7       E MajorE        E/G#
Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells
A minorAm       Am7Am7
 A augmentedA world laid waste with addiction
   FM7
Tell Orwell truth's always
E MajorE       E/G#
stranger than fiction


♫ Verse 11:
  A minorAm             Am7Am7
Big Brother's on closed circuit TV

and on cable
 FM7
Reality's now scripted,
 E MajorE       E/G#
celebrity's for sale
A minorAm         Am7Am7
Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed
   FM7             E MajorE E/G#
Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's
      A minorAm
We had the Enron collapse and
Am7Am7
white-collar crime and
 FM7            E MajorE      E/G#
Investors they were taxed a dollar for a dime
  A minorAm           Am7Am7
The blue chip companies and blue-sky mines
   FM7          E MajorE     E/G#
We no longer choose sides we choose sidelines


♫ Bridge:
   A minorAm
(Rich bleeding the kind,
   Am7Am7
blind leading the blind)
   FM7          E MajorE      E/G#
(And history repeats, no competing with time)
    A minorAm           Am7Am7
(Gasses eating the minds of the Vets

that they bring home)
   FM7
(The plague of Agent Orange,
E MajorE    E/G#
Gulf War Syndrome)
A minorAm          Am7Am7
 (Soldiers sent home Posttraumatic

stress leave)
 FM7       E MajorE      E/G#
(STD's 'cause the sleeve ain't sexy)
A minorAm               Am7Am7
(AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper

with a bowling ball)
  FM7
(Metallica, kill 'em all,
E MajorE    E/G#
let god scold 'em all)


♫ Verse 12:
  A minorAm       Am7Am7
The Guildford Four, Chicago Seven
FM7       E MajorE    E/G#
Mumia, Mandela, Ocean's Eleven
A minorAm         Am7Am7
Half past twelve on Friday the Thirteenth
FM7        E MajorE      E/G#
Dawn of the Dead a Nightmare On Elm Street
A minorAm
Weapons free environment,
Am7Am7
war zone, phone home
FM7         E MajorE      E/G#
Melanoma grow as we soak in the ozone
A minorAm          Am7Am7
Home-grown, (Hydro), Cocaine, (Nitro)
FM7          E MajorE    E/G#
Werewolf in London, (American Psycho), check


♫ Verse 13:
A minorAm          Am7Am7
Cyclones, bushfires, Bush firing Scuds
FM7
Baby Boomers, Woodstock,
   E MajorE        E/G#
what happened to the love?
   A minorAm             Am7Am7
What happened to the cubs? They fed

'em to the wolves
FM7
Set a trial for pedophiles, they
E MajorE       E/G#
let 'em in the schools!
A minorAm            Am7Am7
Set 'em on the students, turned

'em on the kids and
FM7             E MajorE
Everyone responsible should burn
       E/G#
for what they did!


♫ Verse 14:
      A minorAm
And if they try to deny
    Am7Am7
then an eye for an eye, the
FM7
Government and church on which
  E MajorE    E/G#
we try to rely, both
A minorAm              Am7Am7
Rob us 'til it hurts chasing lie

after lie like
FM7         E MajorE     E/G#
Astronauts chasing a pie in the sky, they
A minorAm
Landed on the moon but can't
Am7Am7
seem to return there
FM7
Makes some question if they
E MajorE      E/G#
ever really were there
A minorAm           Am7Am7
 And if they were there now

and they looked back
FM7            E MajorE
 Could we look them in the eye,
     E/G#
could we look back?
A minorAm            Am7Am7
 'Cause when we look back at

what we have done
     FM7    E MajorE    E/G#
Can you believe what we've become?


♫ Outro:
A minorAm       Am7Am7
 And as we walk into the sun
     FM7         E MajorE E/G#
Can you believe what we have become?
A minorAm     Am7Am7
 As we walk into the sun

FM7 E MajorE A minorAm




Chords used in Fifty in Five by Hilltop Hoods:
Am, Am7, Bm, C, E, E/G#, FM7, G+G