Example - What We Made lyrics

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Man X went up to Man Y, <br />

Stepped in his garden and spat in his eye<br />

And said 'I aint movin' your grass is greener-<br />

You wanna settle this name your arena'<br />

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First we made the Wheel<br />

Then we made the Car<br />

Then we made the Bomb<br />

Now it's all gone wrong<br />

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We used to be content with a piece of charcoal<br />

Sketching on walls in a gloomy dark hole<br />

Then we put our strengths into building castles<br />

Now we're a tribe of destructive arseholes<br />

Crawled on all fours our hands replaced paws-<br />

As if we foresaw we would open doors<br />

From trees we made oars to explore the shores<br />

We were madly obsessed with the great outdoors<br />

But not in that order I hear you moanin<br />

But what can you tell from a fossilised stone<br />

In a pile of bones the truth becomes clear<br />

We Pioneered schemes just too severe<br />

Way back then there were few concerns<br />

Find meat to eat, chop wood to burn<br />

And learn to avoid the sabre-toothed tiger<br />

Now our biggest enemy is laser-guided<br />

Too much weight draped on our shoulders<br />

The land that we knew stood firm to hold us<br />

Colonisation is what they sold us<br />

So someone decided we needed soldiers<br />

Destructive forces is what they told us<br />

Invent the engine replace the horses<br />

We stretched resources to drive our Porsches<br />

And now it's all gone wrong<br />

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Man X had forgotten Man Y<br />

He was too busy tryna learn to fly<br />

Meanwhile Man Y mixed a potion<br />

And flattened Man X with a huge explosion<br />

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You can turn your backs but you can't ignore me<br />

There's a part of this story that's truly gory<br />

You gotta feel sickness as I depict this<br />

You never can escape that you've been a witness<br />

Hunting the deer we became distracted<br />

Disturbed by the way that our neighbours acted<br />

Jumped to conclusions with sick delusions<br />

Cos bulk intrusions had us confused<br />

Began with the fusion of elements new<br />

And strongly denied we'd developed a brew<br />

To burn off flesh of an irrelevant few<br />

A malevolent crew not benevolent<br />

The traitor we hated penned the paper<br />

Concocted a potion to make him greater<br />

We knocked up a treat in a laboratory<br />

At the time of conception it shouted glory<br />

Reel off a list of the usual suspects<br />

Subjectively speaking we all got defects<br />

We all cavemen in a suit and tie<br />

Man why you opposing conform or die<br />

I know I've put it simply and quite condensed<br />

The wheel was a brainstorm of commonest sense<br />

But now we need a branch just for terror defence<br />

So somewhere it went wrong, hence...