Lyrics
University of Queensland professor Harry Kriewald
World Since 1945 is a trip
Fire ain’t start in 2020
World war 2 may have ended but a new one was beginning
Russia relations with United States set
Ramifications for globalization
2020 ain’t start the fire
Addressing injustice, Jim Crow to apartheid
Economic reckoning, environment, and energy
China making everything, the world gonna keep spinning
1945, the number, another summer
Hitler was defeated, the US bombed Hiroshima
West had other demons, communism rising
Churchill warned the iron curtain, Stalin said “we riding!”
Revolts enterprising, decolonization
New countries created through Africa and Asia
Indonesia to Algeria freedom flags got waving
underlying players: USSR verse NATO
The Chinese revolution was key
Mao became prez and he painted Asia red
Vietnam division decree
Ho Chi Minh led, people’s war to the death
Embedded liberalism on trend
No social equity when you’re growing economies
Swedish model offered progress
But politics of poverty left welfare state under siege
Fire ain’t start in 2020
World War 2 may have ended but a new one was beginning
Russia relations with United States set
Ramifications for globalization
2020 ain’t start the fire
Addressing injustice, Jim Crow to apartheid
Economic reckoning, environment and energy
China making everything, the world gonna keep spinning
Capitalism related to racism
Case study in South Africa shows how they both villains
Global microcosm transition to coexistence
ethnic perception, ideology’s a weapon
Like pollution of our rivers Who’s responsible to pay?
Friends of the Earth mainstream Policies over holidays
Reagan just wants papes, free market trade
Neoliberal games was a failure for the age
Then another change on the globe
Soviet collapsed, we all over the map
European Union for dough
Capitalist at last but whose hoarding the cash?
2008 the markets crash
We all connected through the worldwide depression
aftermath we asking what’s next?
Hegemony challenge, new disorder wilding!
Fire ain’t start in 2020
World War 2 may have ended but a new one was beginning
Russia relations with United States set
Ramifications for globalization
2020 ain’t start the fire
Addressing injustice, Jim Crow to apartheid
Economic reckoning, environment and energy
China making everything, the world gonna keep spinning