Warm Winter

Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 tunnelling towards the glare of the sun And she wonders, who is sick enough to have done this One minute, she sits at her class desk, the next She's under it and out of 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 coulda 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 (Uh-uh) We're the good guys, we shouldn't fall And she screams, now, this is not a dream Somehow, the scene just looks different on the screen [Chorus] 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 (Winter, winter, winter, 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 out of the sky now [Verse 2] And this is how it all ended Allied with some powerful friends that Vowed to keep our towers defended if only we'd 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 pretence that this was an offensive defence Here we come, peacekeepers 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, it fought the boredom off You oughta just surrender when the coalition forces come And on the seventh day, we rested Look at all the good we did (Yeah), our kids are protected [Chorus] 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 (Winter, winter, winter, 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 out of the sky now [Post-Chorus] Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na [Verse 3] 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 Peacekeepers 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, 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 eyelids 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' [Chorus] 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 (Winter, winter, winter, 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 out of the sky now [Post-Chorus] Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na