Carbon/Silicon

Oilwell

Carbon/Silicon


After 9/11 
They had a three point plan
Osama bin Laden, Iraq, and Iran
So they went into Kabul 
To get the Taliban
In the Tora Bora 
Caves of Afghanistan

Now you can listen to music 
Or go to the show
And the Central Asian pipeline 
Continues to flow
You can stand in the fields 
Where the poppies grow
It simply begs the question 
Where did the future go?

Over there in Iraq 
There's a big oil well
Everyone's in shock 
Overought by the smell
With insurgents going live 
And no one can tell
That the end of the beginning 
Was when Baghdad fell

Saddam was the Emperor 
Of his Republican Guard
They found him in a hole 
In someone's backyard
With all of us making war 
With total disregard
Trying to make some peace 
It shouldn't be so hard

They're getting all 
Hett up all around Iran
They don't think it's fair 
About this nuclear plan
It should be the same 
With London or Tehran
No one should have them 
Not any man

Let's take all the money 
And all of the waste
And shoot the whole lot 
Into outer space
And try to make 
A humanitarian case
For dropping some love 
On the human race

And please don't think 
I don't care 'cause I do
But I have to say the things 
We dare not say that are true
And please don't put me on a list 
Ring me through
Cause I been honest 
And been true to you

Let's drop some luxury 
Goods on to their heads
Give them a DVD player instead
Like in the film 
When El Cid said
"We wish you no harm 
And we bring you bread"

Is this how it's going to be?
When the only platform 
Is in the North Sea
Like a reverse domino
It simply begs the question 
Where did the future go?

Follow me down 
To the depths of Iran
We'll try 
To geologically understand
Roll out a barrel 
Limit the price
Skake your money maker 
And make things nice

So you know 
The world's a messed up place
Got to thank some puts 
And even band for interface
Unprovoked aggression 
Just one stand
That's our future 
In a three point plan

Please don't think 
I don't care 'cause I do
But I have to say the things 
We dare not say that are true
And please don't put me on a list
Rring me through
Cause I been honest 
And been true to you
You, I've been true to you

(6x):
We'll try 
To make a humanitarian case
For dropping some love 
On the human race
We'll try 
To make a humanitarian case
For dropping some love 
On the human race

We'll try 
To make a humanitarian case
For dropping some love 
On the human race
We'll try to make 
A humanitarian case