Skylines (God Bless Suburbia)

I started writing this song last Sunday and I've kinda finished it (OK, I still need to touch some things up). But this is what I've got.

Basically, this song is my anger and disappointment with the progress of my home country of Malaysia. It mainly revolves around race relations. About how despite Malaysia portrays itself as a nation where all races live in harmony, there are still tensions and its not as pretty as the ads show it to be. Not that it isn't there.

I make references to a couple of events in modern Malaysian history, one more recent than the other.

Here it is:

Hey, this city's skyline got so much going for (it)
It's just flashing lights.
Hey, what happened to the pictures on the airplane TV screens

We're wasting time
We're being laughed at by small towns
Have we always been monsters since the summer of '69

God bless suburbia


Chorus:
Because this city's so full of sin
We're burning churches while
We let Vampires rule the day
They rob us blind
They try to keep us deaf and dumb
Our fathers say
'Welcome home, my son
Welcome home'

You know we're in trouble when we agree with enemies
But this time spent away has gotten the best of you and me
What's with all this hate?
Don't you know we're just digging our own graves

It's making me sick to know what we've become

Chorus

I'll stand up tall for my nation
But clench fists at this situation
Have all these years counted for anything at all?
We restrict our own progress
Because we speak a different language
When will we overcome the walls that divide our hearts?


Solo

I will love you
I will always love you

(END)

I know I've been getting slack with my explanations :P.

Malaysia is the country I grew up in and despite its many flaws, I love it and what it stands for. I truly pray that we will overcome our problems and progress as a nation.

MALAYSIA BOLEH!!