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Parched, cracked mouths, empty swollen guts
Sun-baked pavement encroaches on us
Haves and have-nots together at last
Brutally engaged in mortal combat
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What kind of God orchestrates such a thing?
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Ten billion people all suffering
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Truth is not an issue just hungry mouths to feed
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Forget what you want, scrounge the things you need
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Happy and content it can't happen to you
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Fifteen years we'll think of a solution
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It won't just appear in one day
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For ten in twenty-ten we're well on our way
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Like piercing ear darts, I heard the news today
Ten billion people . . . coming your way.
Ten in 20...
Ten in 20...
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this song is about how statistically in the year 2010 there will be 10 billion people on the world (hence the name 10 in 2010) it is about how life will become a struggly for food and shelter, primitive war for survival. its gunna suck
This song is about a Malthusian catastrophe the date and number mean little, the fact that its an inevitability at some point is whats relevant.
I also find this to be one of their most anti-socialist songs. "Haves and have-nots together at last Brutally engaged in mortal combat" This line basically means, we will all finally be of the same economic class when we are all starving in the streets, a philosophical jab at socialists.
The person who thinks China is a step in the right direction needs to do research. They are currently going through a self made crisis of having no women to birth any children, since everyone in the starting generations of there initial ban on more than one child families all wanted boys. If you want the human race to dwindle out of existence, yeah we might want to adopt their system.
I don't get it, where did you get the "anti-socialist" part from the song? I agree with your interpretation of the line that it refers to the abundant and poor will all be on the same economic class. But "mortal combat" might not be referring to the conservative-socialist struggle."Mortal combat" might refer to people striving not to die. Afterall, even if we will all at last starve to death doesn't mean that the class wars are completely futile. I don't sense the satire towards socialism.
I don't get it, where did you get the "anti-socialist" part from the song? I agree with your interpretation of the line that it refers to the abundant and poor will all be on the same economic class. But "mortal combat" might not be referring to the conservative-socialist struggle."Mortal combat" might refer to people striving not to die. Afterall, even if we will all at last starve to death doesn't mean that the class wars are completely futile. I don't sense the satire towards socialism.
Let's look at the other song off the same album "The Gray Race", "Punk Rock Song". Here it says, "Big strong people unwilling to give Small in vision and perspective" Clearly stated the position of the band that the strong people should help the starving people as referred to the first few lines. "In this land of competition the compassion is gone Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on" "competition" as in Capitalism. "Yet we ignore the needy" Again appealing to the rich to help out the poor....
Let's look at the other song off the same album "The Gray Race", "Punk Rock Song". Here it says, "Big strong people unwilling to give Small in vision and perspective" Clearly stated the position of the band that the strong people should help the starving people as referred to the first few lines. "In this land of competition the compassion is gone Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on" "competition" as in Capitalism. "Yet we ignore the needy" Again appealing to the rich to help out the poor.
I see BR as somewhat left-liberal like and have no need to do a philosophical jab toward revolutionary socialists.
this song is on CRAZY TAXI. WOOT!
This song is about world hunger and how "higher" nations say that it will solve itself in 15 years. It also shows that americans blow it off because its not them it is happing to them so why care?? Its also about if there is a god then why is he making his people suffer like this??
Hey, scream_like_conor, ur rite. Dis song iz on Crazy Taxi. And gess whut, so is Them And Us. dis iz definitely a song I like. My little brother luvs dis song. We both think dis and Them And Us(Another really good sog by them whether u'v plade Crazy Taxi or not) truly rock.
true soul doubt, 10 million people in 2010, meaning our current social problems(hunger) will only be augmented even further.
By the way...they wrote this song some time ago, and now they're estimating that there will be 8 million people in the year 2020...8 in 2020 isn't quite as catchy, though.
I heard an interview with, i think Greg Graffin in Triple J and he said they wrote it in 95 and how in 15 years the planet's population would double, and then we'd all be screwed, and how wars would start to be about resources
It's a lot easier to estimate that number 5 years from 2010 than from 15. It's very likely that 10 billion was an accurate prediction at the time.
Philadelphia Eagles, why should we not help them, just because they have different stances, they view some of our policies immoral, why should we think we have moral supieriority, because we're rich? They are people too, people with beliefs same as us. Oh, this song fucking rules. I am writing a book similar to 1984, one of Greg's influences by the way, I entitled it Ten In 2010...