Hilltop Hoods - Fifty In Five Chords

[Intro]
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Am Am7 FM7 E E/G#
 
 
[Verse 1]
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Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement
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So they spent a thousand night times
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In the desert fighting something that they couldn't find
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That made it something that they couldn't fight
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Left us all lamenting, all the wrongs that they couldn't right
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This is for the second time that 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
 
 
[Verse 2]
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They killed MLK and 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
 
 
[Verse 3]
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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
 
 
[Verse 4]
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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
 
 
[Verse 5]
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And we can't look at ourselves
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So we got saline, botox, 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
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When you better shed it!
 
 
[Verse 6]
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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 'cause she got Dodi there
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Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise of
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No children in poverty, wish that could have been honest
 
 
[Verse 7]
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We had Abbott 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
 
 
[Verse 8]
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Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died
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Genocide 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
 
 
[Verse 9]
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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
 
 
[Verse 10]
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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
 
 
[Verse 11]
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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 and
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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
 
 
[Bridge]
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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 '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)
 
 
[Verse 12]
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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), check
 
 
[Verse 13]
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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 pedophiles, they let 'em in the schools!
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Set 'em on the students, turned 'em on the kids and
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Everyone responsible should burn for what they did!
 
 
[Verse 14]
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And if they try to deny then an eye for an eye, the
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Government and church on which we try to rely, both
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Rob us 'til it hurts chasing lie after lie like
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Astronauts chasing a pie in the sky, they
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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've become?
 
 
[Outro]
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 And as we walk into the sun
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Can you believe what we have become?
Am          Am7
 As we walk into the sun...
 
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