Warm Winter - Seth Sentry

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 lets 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?

(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 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