2020 Lyrics

{Muttering}

It's not as if you didn't get the warning

You got the transcripts and the recordings

History has a way of signing us up in the morning

You're a late starter make it easy to ignore it

Later not recall it

You had unfettered access to the facts

But the fact is your back was turned to the atlas

Nothing like not being in the crash test

To help you make your mind up

Unknowing the young sign up

The enemy of our enemy is still our enemy

So why are you arming them? Is this insanity?

That's how the Talliban began

Watch 'em as they turn around and aim their weapons at Americans

How's it feel to be a widow-maker

Taker of the father of the family?

Your tragedy is fate - that's and stakes - so scoff at the Saigon link

Flash those pearlies

Take us way past the brink

And we you knew you were frauds

But onwards we went to war

Nothing could be said to convince you

We've already seen it before

Someone could've told you it'd end like this

We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again

No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind

We've been there before but it's not your time

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again

There's something familiar

About the story you told me

The way that you mouthed it, was not what you sold me

Well yes I'm one of many, yet you ignored the signs

You made it personal, don't spin me that line

You can't relax, 'cause it occurred on your watch

History will judge you 'cause you're all that we've got.

Is anyone listening? Are you fucking insane?

Am I to sit watching as it plays out again?

The truth is we knew this,

People aren't stupid

You play the innocent because you think we let you do it

If we think you're too ruthless

Show you where the point of the boot is

It's all about where the fuck the proof is

You keep an eye on the new kid

He's liable to do shit

If you don't keep a check on it

Beyond your electorate

Peace in Iraq man, stay in Afghanistan

Lookin' for Osama, getting killed by the Taliban?

War on drugs? war on terror, 9/11?

We knew where Johnny stood, where's Kevin?

Don't get me wrong, alarm clocks from Heaven

Going off when the country woke up in '07

But there's no letting up

Yo we're just getting up off the canvas

That very fact demands that

We stay as vigilant as can be - transparency?

Another AWB, but we'll see

Even as we applaud

And we show them the door

Thought we'd warn you that we're wary

'Cause we've already seen it before

Someone could've told you it'd end like this

We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again

No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind

We've been there before but it's not your time

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again

Someone could've told you it'd end like this

We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again

No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind

We've been there before but it's not your time

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I'd probably do it again