Warm Winter

Yeh, yo

And then there was one, a girl young, hair in a bun

Buried under rubble, pummeling the air from her lungs

Shes stunned, she really should be scared but shes numb

So she keeps tunneling towards the glare of the sun

And she wonders, who was sick enough to have done this

One minute she sits at her class desk the next shes under it

And outta the hundreds, that went down, shes the only one that made it out among them

And she stumbles, through the debree as it crumbles

Truthfully if you could have seen what she saw, you wouldnt have believed it all

'Is this a war?' surely not it couldnt reach our shores (nah)

Surely not they couldnt breach our walls

We're the good guys we shouldnt fall

And she screams, now this is not a dream

But somehow the scene just looks different on the screen

My mum said its gonna be a warm winter

My dad said its gonna be a warm winter

Your god said its gonna be a warm winter

Everythings a little bit crazy right now

Everyones a little bit strange and right now

All i wanna do is find a place to hide out

Watch for the bombs falling outta the sky now

And this is how it all ended,

Allied with some powerful friends that

Vowed to keep our towers defended, if only we let them

Our hand in a plan to take over a land so we packed bags and entered

No questions, no sweat lets just conquer, wouldnt wanna risk that friendship

Besides, this is for the best of reasons, a pretence that this was an offensive defense

(And here we come, peace keepers holding machine guns, the bombs whistle songs of freedom)

And we beat them, yeh we taught them

Slaughtered all of em and patrolled the borders and oil drums

Bought a fortune and we tortured em and fought the boredom off

The order 'just surrender' when the coallition forces come

And on the seventh day we rested, look at all the good we did

Our kids are protected

My mum said its gonna be a warm winter

My dad said its gonna be a warm winter

Your god said its gonna be a warm winter

Everythings a little bit crazy right now

Everyones a little bit strange and right now

All i wanna do is find a place to hide out

Watch for the bombs falling outta the sky now

So we came home, handshakes and ticket tape parades

Ace of spades swinging from a rope, 'hip hooray for the saviours'

We didnt even notice the changes, a disease born more contageous than aids is

Yeh, paranoia had changed us, the fear made us insane, afraid of our neighbours

The mere delay of a train was taken as strange

And every brown paper bag was an al-quaeda attack

And every street corner had an armed marine on it

Peace keepers here to keep the peace that we wanted

They took the streets from us, our own leaders

Who the fuck would invade a country for no reason? Oh Jesus

Goodbye freedom, bye liberty, goodbye sense, goodbye friends, high 50 metre wire fence

Irony, yeh didnt we define it, signed over our rights but didnt read the fine print

Opened our eye lids and stormed into the streets for peace, its gonna be a warm winter indeed

So there it is, how we became the terrorists at war with our government

'OK kids class dismissed'

My mum said its gonna be a warm winter

My dad said its gonna be a warm winter

Your god said its gonna be a warm winter

Everythings a little bit crazy right now

Everyones a little bit strange and right now

All i wanna do is find a place to hide out

Watch for the bombs falling outta the sky now