It's not as if you didn't get the warning
You got transcripts and recordings
History has a way of signing us up in the morning

But 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 is turned to the atlas
Nothing like jumping in the crash test
To help you make your mind up

Unknowingly the young sign up
The enemy of our enemy is still our enemy
So why will you palm it and resist insanity

That's how the Taliban began
Put your music turn around and
Ain't no weapons that Americans

How's it feel to be a widow maker
Taker of the father of the family
Your tragedy is playing that's the stakes

The scoff at the Saigon link
Flash those pearlies
Take us way past the perimeter


And we knew you were frauds
Onwards we went to war

Nothing could be said to promise you
We've already seen it before


Someone coulda told you it'd end like this
They did you didn't listen you can take a trip


Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'll probably do it again


No-one could have ever half sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not the time


Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'll probably do it again


There's something familiar, bout the story you told me
The way that you mouthed it, is not what you sold me
I guess I'm one of many, yet you ignored the signs

You made it personal, don't spin me them lies
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 $#&@ing insane?
Am I twisted 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

We think you're to ruthless
Show you where the point of the boot is
It's all about where the $#&@ing proof is

You'll keep an eye on that new kid
He's liable to do %#@!
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 no
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
But we warn you that we're wary

Cause we've already seen it before

Someone coulda told you it'd end like this

They did you didn't listen you can take a trip

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'll probably do it again


No-one could have ever half sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not the time

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'll probably do it again


Someone coulda told you it'd end like this
They did you didn't listen you can take a trip

Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many

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

No-one could have ever half sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not the time


Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'll probably do it again