| Then I would like to tell you about a few centuries in history
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| It was once the 70s, believe it or not
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| not because I remember so much, I was born in the middle so I was all for
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| small
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| but I have heard of something called the debt crisis and rising oil prices
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| that was probably where they laid the foundation for it all, the intense final stages of the Vietnam War
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| suffocated revolutions, counter-reactions, a cold war and a lot of heat
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| when drugs and TV really took over, we got shady fashion and disco music
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| In the 80's that yes grew up
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| it was a world ruled by the likes of Reagan and Bush
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| it was at that time Sweden still va
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| some form of welfare state, everything was just right and good
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| we had two TV channels, had no advertising
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| and after eight o'clock no one was seen in town
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| o we blindly thought they had walked people on the moon
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| faint rumors were heard of a hole in the ozone
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| o you cheer on the cowboys, never on the Indians
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| save the Communists, beloved Americans
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| with Top Gun glasses and a Big Mac Meal
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| would have baseball caps or a Rambokniv
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| yes Hollywood did its job solidly
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| gave us heroic tales from the many wars
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| o we chewed bullshit with good appetite
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| but then the myth of the MTV generation broke
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| (you do not slow down, it only increases)
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| We try to close our eyes, but we still see it
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| do our best to pretend but when not possible
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| shall we stare this shit in the eye
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| do what is required, whatever may be needed
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| shall we burn on until all e dead
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| shout louder and hold your ear
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| The emperor has no clothes
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| I said, the owner has no clothes, no no
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| (we have to get back into the swing man)
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| Then in the 90's something inexplicable happened
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| maybe it was yes who grew up but at all
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| CNN showed the righteous war
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| ???  | 
| wants to bring freedom to the Persian Gulf
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| uprising in Los Angeles, plus a recession
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| something was rotten in the west, yes something was sour
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| we had wars in the Balkans and the Unabombs
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| OJ Simpson, apartheid conceded
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| we got Pulp Fiction and Bill Clinton
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| Tupac and Biggie died in the wild
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| Sweden became Europe, we came third in the World Cup
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| we got TV3 news and the fast modems
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| the Social Democrats became moderates
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| we got longer opening hours, new squares and streets
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| but times change as the years change so
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| in 1999 it was Y 2 K
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| We try to close our eyes, but we still see it
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| do our best to pretend but when not possible
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| shall we stare this shit in the eye
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| do what is required, whatever may be needed
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| shall we burn on until all e dead
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| shout louder and hold your ear
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| The emperor has no clothes
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| I said, the owner has no clothes, no no
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| And then we stand here today, and for that you get damn happy
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| it's a new millennium, and you have to close your eyes damn hard not to see
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| the lies
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| faith, hope and love feel like something watered down New Ageigt mjäk
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| Che Guevara has already graced all the world's T-shirts
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| so in the search for more extreme life experiences, we probably have to cut ourselves,
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| I do not know
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| it's not enough to see a film, you have to be in the film
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| and the environmental reports say we have a half sigh to fix it,
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| but we still have shady fashion and disco music |