[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]
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Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
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[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
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