Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies rust in motion, fighting night and day.
Well it’s kill or be killed,
And one day we’ll get the best of them.
Hello helicopter, will you be my friend?
Will you take me away?
Hello helicopter, have you heard the news?
No one gives a shit about the things they do.
We all waste and consume, destroy and ruin everything we touch.
It’s easy not to think when you’re not told that much.
I’m not saying anything you haven’t heard before.
I’m just trying to understand the way we are.
Hello helicopter, are you lost out there?
Swimming through the garbage dump that fills the air.
In several more years no one will care:
They’ll be rich and dead,
So let somebody else devise a cure for it.
Nobody seems to care.
Nobody ever learns.
Are we ever going to get it right?
Are we ever going to start making sense,
And stop pretending that we care?
Are we ever going to get it right?
Are we ever going to start making sense
And stop pretending…
Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies rust in motion, fighting night and day.
Well it’s kill or be killed,
And one day we’ll get the best of them.
Hello helicopter, are you listening?
- Motion City Soundtrack, Hello Helicopter
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