fifty in five Chords

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[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Am]Terror cleared the skyline
an[C]d anger clouded judgement,
So they [F]spent a thousand night times in the [E]desert
fighting something that they [Am]couldn't find,
That made it [C]something
that they couldn't find,
[F]Left us all lamenting all the [E]wrongs
that they couldn't right.
[Am]This is for the second time that
we've [C]been here before,
From Viet[F]nam to Saddam we always
[E]needing a war.
Neo- [Am]Conservative rose [C]up like Viet Cong their [Am]fingers
on the trigger we wont be here for long.
They killed [C]MLK and named
a day after him,
They [F]killed JFK and named an
[E]airport after him,
Some [Am]guy shot a monster called Rea[C]gan so he could bone
a [F]girl named Jodie Foster if [E]only he'd known.
[Am]They tested nukes in the atmosphere
the [C]sea and the dirt,
And they [F]tested all these missiles just to [E]see
if they'd work. Now [Am]France got em, Russia got em,
[C]India and Pakistan, [F]Korea want em,
states want em [E]pointed at the [Am]Taliban. Iran and Afghanistan [C]sands of the Arab lands,
[F]Orders from portable com[E]mands
and armored caravans,
[Am]Internet [C]3G cellular phones,
serial [F]killers buildin mini [E]cells in their homes.
And we had [Am]Manson, Bundy,
[C]Gacy- son of Sam,
[F]Macarena, Superman, [E]chicken dance,
running man,
[Am]Generation X and [C]generation Y,
And the [F]generation next will de
[E]generate and die,
'Cause we got holes in the [Am]ozone
that we put there ourselves,
[E]Now the pol[Am]es are a no- go,
earths [E]cooking itself,
And we cant [Am]look at ourselves so we got [C]saline,
[F]botox, eighteen, fake tits, [E]nineteen detox,
[Am]Don't stop, get it, get it,
[C]can't afford it get it credit,
[F]Buy it, spend it,
try it, getting [E]fat? then you better ched it,
[Am]Ab- swing, blue blocker,
[C]Tupac or [F]Biggy,
East coast, west coast, [E]Fat Joe or fifty,
[Am]Thatcher the shifty iron[C] lady, Tony Blair,
A [F]princess died, some [E]say cause she got [Am]Dodi there,
Whitlam, Keating, [C]Hawke and a promise,
Of no [F]children in poverty,
wish that [E]could have been honest,
We had [Am]Abbot and Costello,

[Verse 2]
right wing overloads,
[F]Promises and [Dm]children,
they [E]threw em both overboard,
[Am]Overwrought refugees
[C]thrown to a group home,
Or [F]jailed for the crime of
[E]looking for a [Em]new home,
[Am]Elvis died, Hendrix died,
[C]Lennon died
Genocide, [F]in Africa, Serbia, Cam[Am]bodia,
[E]pes[Am]ticides, bio- toxins, che[C]mical warfare,
[F]All's fair in love and war, more
[E]work for the pall[Am]bearer,
More terror, more unjust
[C]search and seizures,
A [F]tidal wave came and claimed
the [E]coast of Indonesia,
[Am]Quakes in Iran,
Japan [C]and California,
[F]Greenhouse gas turned
the [E]world into a sauna,
The [Am]trauma of mortars,
[C]martyrs, slaughters,
Of [F]partners, mourners,
[E]fathers and daughters,
They [Am]chased us, caught us,
[C]numbered us to sort us,
[F]Raped up, scorned us, to [E]break
us they bought us,
[Am]Third world kidneys for
[C]captains of industry,
[F]Uprising in the street, cor
[E]ruption in the ministry,
A blow[Am]job brought about
the [C]fall of a dynasty,
An[F]d MP3s saw the f[E]all
of an industry,
[Am]Doubled population,
[C]halved accommodation,
[F]Carved up resources and we [E]starved the poorer nations,
[Am]Beirut, [C]Chechnya, all hell,
Broke [F]loose, belin,
nineteen eighty [E]nine man, the wall fell,
[Am]Cold war ended but that
[C]didn't stop more shells,
[F]Waco lit up the sky [E]like burning oil wells,
[Am]A world laid waste[C] addiction,
Tell [F]Orwell truth's always
[E]stranger then fiction,
Big [Am]brother's on closed
circuit [C]TV and on cable,
[F]Reality's now scrip[E]ted, celebrity's for sale,
[Am]jeopardy and jail, [C]seized, deposed,
Remed[F]ies and penalties for
[E]failed CEO's,
[Am]We had the Enron collapse,
and [C]white- collar crime,
In[F]vestors they were taxed,
a [E]dollar for a dime,
The [Am]blue chip companies
and [C]blue- sky mines,
We no [F]longer choose sides
we [E]choose sidelines,
Rich [Am]bleeding the kind,
blind [C]leading the blind,
And [F]history repeats,
no com[E]peting with time,
Gasses [Am]eating the minds of the
[C]vets that they bing home,
The [F]plague of agent orange,
[E]gulf war syndrome,
[Am]Soldiers sent [C]home,
posttraumatic stress [F]leave,
STDs cause the [E]sleeve ain't sexy,
[Am]AIDS shook the eighties,
grim reaper with a [C]bowling ball,
[F]Metallica, kill em all, [E]let god scold em all,
[Am]The Guildford four, Chicago se[C]ven,
[F]
[E]Mumia, mandela, oceans eleven,
[Am]Half past twelve on Frid[C]ay
the thirteenth,
[F]Dawn of the dead,
[E]a nightmare on elm street,
[Am]Weapons free environment, [C]war zone,
phone [F]home,
Melanoma grow as we
[E]soak in the ozone,
[Am]Home- grown, HYDRO,
[C]cocaine, NITRO,
[F]Werewolf in London,
Amer[E]ican [Am]psycho,
Cyclones, [C]bushfires, bush firing scuds,
[F]Baby boomers,
Woodstock what [E]happened to the love?
What [Am]happened to the cubs?
they [C]def em to the wolves,
[F]Set a trial for pedophiles, they
[E]let em in the schools,
[Am]Set 'em on the students,
[C]turned em on the kids,
And [F]everyone responsible should
[E]burn for what they did,
And if they [Am]try to deny
then [C]an eye for an eye,
The [F]government and church
on which we [E]try to rely,
Both [Am]rob us till it hurts chasing [C]lie after lie,
[F]Like astronauts chasing a [E]pie in the sky,
They [Am]landed on the moon but can't
seem to re[C]turn there,
[F]Makes some question if they
[E]ever really were there,
[Am]And if they were there[C] now
and they looked back,
[F]Would we look them in the eye[E],
could we look back?
[Am]'Cause when we look back
at [C]what we have done,
Can you be[F]lieve what we
have be[E]come?[Am]
As we walk [C]into the sun,
Can you be[F]lieve what we have become?
[E]As [Am]we walk into th[C]e sun.
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