warm winter

yeah, yo, and then there was one, a girl young, hair in a bun, buried under rubble, pummeling the air from her lungs, she's stunned, she really should be scared but she's 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 she's under it, and outta the hundreds that went down, she's the only one that made it out among them, and she stumbles, through the debris as it crumbles, truthfully if you could have seen what she saw, you wouldn't have believed it all, "is this war?" surely not, it couldn't reach our shores, nah, surely not they couldn't breach our walls, we're the good guys we shouldn't fall, and she screams, now this is not a dream, but somehow the scene just looks different on the screen, my mum said it's gonna be a warm winter, my dad said it's gonna be a warm winter, your god said it's gonna be a warm winter, everything's a little bit crazy right now, everyone's a little bit strange and right now, all i wanna do is find a place to lie down, 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 lend them, our hand in a plan to take over a land, so we packed bags and entered, no questions, no sweat let's just conquer, wouldn't wanna risk that friendship, besides, this is for the best of reasons, a pretense that this was an offensive defence, here we come, peace keepers armed with machine guns, the bombs whistle songs of freedom, and we beat them, yeah we taught them, slaughtered all of 'em patrolled the borders and oil drums, and for the fortunate we tortured em and fought the boredom off, you ought to 'just surrender' when the coalition forces come, and on the seventh day we rested, look at all the good we did, our kids are protected, my mum said it's gonna be a warm winter, my dad said it's gonna be a warm winter, your god said it's gonna be a warm winter, everything's a little bit crazy right now, everyone's a little bit strange and right now, all i wanna do is find a place to lie down, 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 didn't even notice the changes, a disease born more contagious than aids is, yeah, paranoia, it 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?, goodbye freedom, bye liberty, goodbye sense, goodbye friends, hi 50 metre wire fence, irony, yeah didn't we define it, signed over our rights but didn't read the fine print, opened our eye lids and stormed into the streets for peace, it's gonna be a warm winter indeed, so there it is, how we became the terrorists, at war with our government 'okay kids class dismissed', my mum said it's gonna be a warm winter, my dad said it's gonna be a warm winter, your god said it's gonna be a warm winter, everything's a little bit crazy right now, everyone's a little bit strange and right now, all i wanna do is find a place to lie down, watch for the bombs falling outta the sky now