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Tuning: Standard ♫ Intro: Am Am7 FM7 E E/G# ( x2 ) ♫ Verse 1: Am Terror cleared the skyline Am7 and anger clouded judgement FM7 So they spent a thousand night times E E/G# In the desert fighting something Am that they couldn't find Am7 That made it something that they couldn't fight FM7 Left us all lamenting, all the E E/G# wrongs that they couldn't right Am This is for the second time Am7 that we've been here before FM7 From Vietnam to Saddam, E E/G# we always needing a war Am Am7 Neo Conservatives rose up like Viet Cong N.C Their fingers on the trigger,
we won't be here for long ♫ Verse 2: Am Am7 They killed MLK and named a day after him FM7 They killed JFK and named an E E/G# airport after him Am Am7 Some guy shot a monster called Reagan so he could bone FM7 A girl named Jodie Foster, E E/G# if only he'd known Am We tested nukes in the atmosphere, Am7 the sea and the dirt FM7 And they tested all these missiles E E/G# just to see if they worked ♫ Verse 3: Am Now France got 'em, Russia got 'em, Am7 India and Pakistan FM7 Korea want 'em, States want 'em, E E/G# pointed at the Taliban Am Iran and Afghanistan, Am7 sands of the Arab lands FM7 E Orders from portable commands in E/G# armoured caravans Am Am7 Internet, 3G cellular phones FM7 E Serial killers built mini-cells E/G# in their homes ♫ Verse 4: Am Am7 And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy, Son of Sam FM7 E Macarena, Superman, Chicken Dance, E/G# Running Man Am Am7 Generation X and Generation Y FM7 And the generation next will E E/G# degenerate and die Am 'Cause we got holes in the ozone G that we put there ourselves Now the poles are a no-go, Bm C earth's cooking itself ♫ Verse 5: Am And we can't look at ourselves Am7 FM7 So we got saline, botox, eighteen, E E/G# fake tits, nineteen, detox Am Don't stop, get it, get it, Am7 can't afford it, get it credit FM7 E Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat E/G# When you better shed it! ♫ Verse 6: Am Am7 Ab Swing, Blue Blocker, Tupac or Biggie FM7 E E/G# East Coast, West Coast, Fat Joe or Fifty Am Am7 Thatcher, the shifty Iron Lady, Tony Blair FM7 E A princess died, some say E/G# 'cause she got Dodi there Am Am7 Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise of FM7 No children in poverty, E E/G# wish that could have been honest ♫ Verse 7: Am We had Abbott and Costello, Am7 right wing overlords FM7 Promises and children, E E/G# they threw 'em both overboard Am Am7 Overwrought refugees thrown to a group home FM7 Or jailed for the crime of E E/G# looking for a new home ♫ Verse 8: Am Am7 Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died FM7 Genocide in Africa, Serbia, E E/G# Cambodia, pesticides Am Am7 Bio-toxins, chemical warfare FM7 All's fair in love and war, E E/G# more work for the pallbearer Am Am7 More terror, more unjust search and seizures FM7 A tidal wave came and claimed the E E/G# coast of Indonesia ♫ Verse 9: Am Am7 Quakes in Iran, Japan and California FM7 Greenhouse gas turned the E E/G# world into a sauna Am Am7 The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters FM7 E Of partners, mourners fathers E/G# and daughters Am They chased us, caught us, Am7 numbered us to sort us FM7 Raped us, scorned us, E E/G# to break us they bought us Am Am7 Third world kidneys for captains of industry FM7 Uprising in the street, E E/G# corruption in the ministry Am Am7 A blowj*b brought about the fall of a dynasty FM7 E E/G# And MP3's saw the fall of an industry ♫ Verse 10: Am Am7 Doubled population, halved accommodation FM7 Carved up resources and we E E/G# starved the poorer nations Am Am7 Beirut, Chechnya, all hell broke loose FM7 E Berlin, nineteen eighty nine, man, E/G# the wall fell Am Cold war ended but that Am7 didn't stop more shells FM7 E E/G# Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells Am Am7 A world laid waste with addiction FM7 Tell Orwell truth's always E E/G# stranger than fiction ♫ Verse 11: Am Am7 Big Brother's on closed circuit TV and on cable FM7 Reality's now scripted, E E/G# celebrity's for sale Am Am7 Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed FM7 E E/G# Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's Am We had the Enron collapse and Am7 white-collar crime and FM7 E E/G# Investors they were taxed a dollar for a dime Am Am7 The blue chip companies and blue-sky mines FM7 E E/G# We no longer choose sides we choose sidelines ♫ Bridge: Am (Rich bleeding the kind, Am7 blind leading the blind) FM7 E E/G# (And history repeats, no competing with time) Am Am7 (Gasses eating the minds of the Vets that they bring home) FM7 (The plague of Agent Orange, E E/G# Gulf War Syndrome) Am Am7 (Soldiers sent home Posttraumatic stress leave) FM7 E E/G# (STD's 'cause the sleeve ain't sexy) Am Am7 (AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper with a bowling ball) FM7 (Metallica, kill 'em all, E E/G# let god scold 'em all) ♫ Verse 12: Am Am7 The Guildford Four, Chicago Seven FM7 E E/G# Mumia, Mandela, Ocean's Eleven Am Am7 Half past twelve on Friday the Thirteenth FM7 E E/G# Dawn of the Dead a Nightmare On Elm Street Am Weapons free environment, Am7 war zone, phone home FM7 E E/G# Melanoma grow as we soak in the ozone Am Am7 Home-grown, (Hydro), Cocaine, (Nitro) FM7 E E/G# Werewolf in London, (American Psycho), check ♫ Verse 13: Am Am7 Cyclones, bushfires, Bush firing Scuds FM7 Baby Boomers, Woodstock, E E/G# what happened to the love? Am Am7 What happened to the cubs? They fed 'em to the wolves FM7 Set a trial for pedophiles, they E E/G# let 'em in the schools! Am Am7 Set 'em on the students, turned 'em on the kids and FM7 E Everyone responsible should burn E/G# for what they did! ♫ Verse 14: Am And if they try to deny Am7 then an eye for an eye, the FM7 Government and church on which E E/G# we try to rely, both Am Am7 Rob us 'til it hurts chasing lie after lie like FM7 E E/G# Astronauts chasing a pie in the sky, they Am Landed on the moon but can't Am7 seem to return there FM7 Makes some question if they E E/G# ever really were there Am Am7 And if they were there now and they looked back FM7 E Could we look them in the eye, E/G# could we look back? Am Am7 'Cause when we look back at what we have done FM7 E E/G# Can you believe what we've become? ♫ Outro: Am Am7 And as we walk into the sun FM7 E E/G# Can you believe what we have become? Am Am7 As we walk into the sun FM7 E Am Chords used in Fifty in Five by Hilltop Hoods: Am, Am7, Bm, C, E, E/G#, FM7, G
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Chords: Am, Am7, E, E/G#, C, A, G, Bm, Ab