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Hilltop Hoods - Fifty In Five (Previously Unreleased) (Official Video)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Hilltop Hoods
Hilltop Hoods
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Barry Francis
Barry Francis
Composer
Dan Cochrane
Dan Cochrane
Composer
DON COCHRANE
DON COCHRANE
Composer
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith
Composer
John Hill
John Hill
Composer
Matt Lambert
Matt Lambert
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Suffa
Suffa
Producer
Matthew Lambert
Matthew Lambert
Mixing Engineer
Barry Francis
Barry Francis
Mixing Engineer
Alex Mader
Alex Mader
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgment
So they spent a thousand night times in the desert
Fighting something that they couldn't find
That made it something that they couldn't find
Left us all lamenting, all the wrongs that they couldn't right
[Verse 2]
This is for the second time that we've been here before
From Vietnam to Saddam, we always needing a war
Neo Conservatives rose up like Viet Cong
Their fingers on the trigger, we won't be here for long
[Verse 3]
They killed MLK and named a day after him
They killed JFK and named an airport after him
Some guy shot a monster called Reagan so he could bone
A girl named Jodie Foster, if only he'd known
[Verse 4]
We tested nukes in the atmosphere, the sea and the dirt
And they tested all these missiles just to see if they'd work
Now France got 'em, Russia got 'em, India and Pakistan
Korea what 'em, states want 'em pointed at the Taliban
[Verse 5]
Iran and Afghanistan, sands of the Arab lands
Orders from portable commands and armored caravans
Internet, 3G cellular phones
Serial killers building mini cells in their homes
[Verse 6]
And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy, Son of Sam
Macarena, Superman, chicken dance, running man
Generation X and Generation Y
And the generation next will degenerate and die
[Verse 7]
'Cause we got holes in the ozone
That we put there ourselves
Now the poles are a no go, earth's cooking itself
And we can't look at ourselves
So we got Saline, Botox, eighteen, fake tits, nineteen, detox
[Verse 8]
Don't stop, get it, get it, can't afford it, get it credit
Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat then you better shed it
Ab swing, two blocker, Tupac or Biggy
East coast west coast, Fat Joe or Fifty
Thatcher the shifty, iron lady, Tony Blair
A princess died, some say 'cause she got dirty there
Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise
Of no children in poverty wish that could have been honest
[Verse 9]
We had Abbott and Costello, right wing overloads
Promises and children, they threw 'em both overboard
Overwrought with refugees thrown to a group home
Or jailed for the crime of looking for a new home
[Verse 10]
Elvis died, Hendrix died, Lennon died, Genocide
In Africa, Serbia, Cambodia, pesticides, bio toxins, chemical warfare
All's fair in love and war, more work for the pallbearer
More terror, more unjust search and seizures
A tidal wave came and claimed the coast of Indonesia
Quakes in Iran, Japan and California
Greenhouse gas turned the world into a sauna
[Verse 11]
The trauma of mortars, martyrs, slaughters
Of partners, mourners, fathers and daughters
They chased us, caught us, numbered us to sort us
Raped us, scorned us, to break us, they bought us
Third world kidneys for captains of industry
Uprising in the street, corruption in the ministry
[Verse 12]
A blow job brought about the fall of a Dynasty
And MP3's saw the fall of an industry
Doubled population, halved accommodation
Carved up resources and we starved the poorer nations
[Verse 13]
Beirut, Chechnya, all hell broke loose
Berlin, 1989, then the wall fell
Cold war ended but that didn't stop more shells
Waco lit up the sky like burning oil wells
[Verse 14]
A world laid waste with addiction
Tell Orwell, truth's alway's stranger then fiction
Big Brother's on closed circuit TV and on Cable
Reality's now scripted, celebrity's for sale
[Verse 15]
Jeopardy and jail, seized, deposed
Remedies and penalties for failed CEO's
We had the Enron collapse and white collar crimes
Investor's, they were taxed a dollar for a dime
The blue chip companies and blue sky mines
We no longer choose sides, we choose sidelines
[Verse 16]
Rich bleeding the kind, blind leading the blind
And history repeats, no competing with time
Gasses eating the minds of the vets that they bring home
The plague of agent orange, gulf war syndrome
[Verse 17]
Soldiers sent home, post traumatic stress leave
STD's 'cause the sleeve ain't sexy
AIDS shook the eighties, grim reaper with a bowling ball
Metallica, kill 'em all, let God scold 'em all
[Verse 18]
The Guildford four, Chicago Seven, Mumia, Mandela, Ocean's Eleven
Half past twelve on Friday the thirteenth
Dawn of the Dead, a Nightmare on Elm street
[Verse 19]
Weapons free environment, war zone, phone home
Melanoma grows as we soak in the ozone
Home grown, Hydro, cocaine, Nitro
Werewolf in London, American Psycho
[Verse 20]
Cyclones, bushfires, bush firing squads
Baby boomers, wood stock, what happened to the love?
What happened to the cubs? they fed them to the wolves
Set a trial for pedophiles, they let them in the schools
Set 'em on the students, turned 'em on the kids
Everyone responsible should burn for what they did
And if they try to deny, then an eye for an eye
[Verse 21]
Then government and church on which we try to rely
Both rob us till it hurts, chasing lie after lie
Like astronauts chasing a pie in the sky
They landed on the moon but can't seem to return there
Makes some question if they ever really were there
And if they were there now and they looked back
Could we look them in the eye, could we look back?
'Cause when we look back at what we have done
Can you believe what we have become
[Verse 22]
As we walk into the sun
Can you believe what we have become
As we walk into the sun
Written by: Barry Francis, DON COCHRANE, Daniel Smith, John Hill, Matt Lambert

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