Urthboy - Distant Sense of Random Menace lyrics

Maybe it's too complicated
Maybe it's a minefield
Maybe it's like someone else's murder
It's not quite real
Buried page 10 of today's paper
Read about another road rage
Of a crazed teenager
The mother gives the vox
Grab saying she's just
Sad, and all the justice in the
World won't bring her daughter back
Flavour of the 48 hours til
The news finds another
Utter tragedy to increase the views
And you still never know if
You've reached the truth
30 seconds to a minute and you're in it
Up to the tips of your toes
And the truth can be a dodgy uncle
Media moguls and leaders act
Like Simon & Garfunkle


The, right wing squarks for yet more hawks
And the
Left wing calls for yet more peace talks
And many people left are
Asking who to believe
Cos reality is as muddy as token olive leaves
And apparently you can't wear your
Heart on your sleeve
Cos the menace is too distant
For listeners to grieve and even umm
I've been numbed til the cartoon alternative
Just trying to learn to live

Kigali
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Chechnya
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Lebanon
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Woomera
It's just a distant sense of random menace

Try as I might I cannot
Get my head around the
Hutus slaughtering the Tutsis
In Rwanda one-nine-nine-four
And then on top to comprehend
How the United Nations
Let it happen with their blue
Helmets armed by the door
Eight hundred thousand in less than
Ninety days, is Africa just too far away
Or is the genocide convention
Only mentioned in connection
With the Nazis and the Jews
During World War Two
Cos your world views seen through
The same few that drew
Their bloody colonial maps
For custodial taxes historical pacts
Treaties and age-old arrangements ignore
In order for the dominant
Order to be restored
Warlords, dictators, puppet regimes installed
While cold wars and old walls did fall
Wars on drugs and wars on terror
Later on there'll be concessions made
By governments of intelligence errors
Is to understand to simplify?
Black and white, good
And bad, learn not to sympathise unless it's
Of an allied flag i'll be damned if my land
Is the fifty-first state
Both a realist and idealist on the same day

Vietnam
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Sierra Leone
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Zimbabwe
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Bosnia
It's just a distant sense of random menace

It's not a soapbox, or at least I hope not
These are things that affect me so
Much they're what I dream of
Dream of different endings where
Lessons are learnt before good and bad were
Copyright foreign policy terms
Before hip hop was either barbeque or bling
Before it seemed like everyone
Was operated by string
So align yourself, define yourself
Design yourself
With any luck your life will all work out
And you won't find yourself the victim
Of an effort to ethnically cleanse
Left to defend the rest of these men
Women and children, from rape
Pillage and killing cos
Every evil got it's coalition
Of the goddamn willing
So forgive me if I can't give
You something to laugh to
This is for you to argue
Shake your mind and arse to
It's for me to ask you just who can you trust
Dust to dust, and if tomorrow is us? What if

Kashmir
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Guam
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Kabul
It's just a distant sense of random menace
San Salvador
It's just a distant sense of random menace
Gaza Strip
It's just a distant sense of random menace
East Timor
It's just a distant sense of random menace