Lyric discussion by Me4502 

Cover art for Fifty in Five lyrics by Hilltop Hoods

Terror cleared the skyline and anger clouded judgement,

9/11, clearing the skyline as in removing the buildings.

So they spent a thousand night times in the desert fighting something that they couldn't find,

Regarding the WMD issue. Where the US government invaded the middle east out of threat of WMDs

That made it something that they couldn't fight,

Al Quaeda, ISIS, etc. The power struggle created terrorist groups.

Left us all lamenting all the wrongs that they couldn't right.

Protests about war crimes committed by the US.

This is for the second time that we've been here before,

Vietnam war. Also started on false premise :P

From Vietnam to Saddam we always needing a war.

Like last few lines, Vietnam War and Saddam Hussein - both wars started on false pretenses

Neo-Conservative rose up like Viet Cong their fingers on the trigger we wont be here for long.

Anti-US groups rising in other countries, eg middle east.

They killed MLK and named a day after him,

FBI encouraging MLK to kill himself, ended up creating an opposing force that ended up killing him. MLK Day.

They killed JFK and named an airport after him,

Conspiracy Theory regarding JFK <-> Russia ties that occurred a week before his assassination. JFK Airport.

Some guy shot a monster called Reagan so he could bone a girl named Jodie Foster if only he'd known.

Alleged reason for assassination was to impress Jodie Foster.

They tested nukes in the atmosphere the sea and the dirt,

Nuclear missile testing.

And they tested all these missiles just to see if they'd work. Now France got em, Russia got em,

Same

India and Pakistan, Korea want em, states want em pointed at the Taliban. Iran and Afghanistan sands of the Arab lands,

Same

Orders from portable commands and armored caravans,

War turned into sending missles from safe locations

Internet 3G cellular phones, serial killers buildin mini cells in their homes.

Possible Robert Hansen

And we had Manson, Bundy, Gacy-son of Sam,

Serial Killers & People who ordered mass killing

Macarena, Superman, chicken dance, running man,

Dances, culture icons

Generation X and generation Y, And the generation next will degenerate and die,

Previous generations left irreparable damage.

'Cause we got holes in the ozone that we put there ourselves,

Ozone layer hole from CFCs

Now the poles are a no-go, earths cooking itself,

Global warming

And we cant look at ourselves so we got saline, botox, eighteen, fake tits, nineteen detox,

Appearance modification

Don't stop, get it, get it, can't afford it get it credit,

Hyper-capitalism

Buy it, spend it, try it, getting fat? then you better ched it,

More hyper-capitalism, and body image.

Ab-swing, blue blocker, Tupac or Biggy,

Excercise, rappers.

East coast, west coast, Fat Joe or fifty,

Tupac & Biggy were killed in East/West coast fights.

Thatcher the shifty iron lady, Tony Blair,

Margaret Thatcher

A princess died, some say cause she got Dodi there,

Princess Diana, conspiracy theory about her relationship with Dodi Fayad

Whitlam, Keating, Hawke and a promise, Of no children in poverty, wish that could have been honest,

Promise to end poverty

TBC

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