I'm glad I ended up finding the Max Q album the other day, I've been listening to a bit of it lately, although mostly just Max Q - Way of the world. For those who don't know, Max Q is a collaboration between Michael Hutchence (INXS) and Ollie Olsen, who is the founder and AnR of probably my favorite Australian (and perhaps only at the time) "Acid House" label, Psy-Harmonics. I use to listen to this song a lot when is was released in 1989? or 1990, I was a young kid so I never got what it was really about, I just loved the power and real emotion that Hutchences put into the vocal and also the off-breakbeat drums in it. However now as I listen to this song I remember what was told to me by either my oldest sister or one of her friends what the lyrics were all about (They were huge Hutchence fans), basically its all about the Corporate greed of the 80s in America rolled into China and the opression that the westeren world saw back then with what happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1989. I don't know if this is really true but I can see where they get the idea from reading the lyrics, although now when I hear this song I think about 9/11 and both Iraqi (x2) and Afgan conflicts that have happened over the last 14 or 15 years and just the general feeling of fear that a lot of the western world started to experience from 2001. Its funny how a lot of political songs from around the turn of the 80s in the 90s still sound relevant today, its like the western world (well America/Australia/Britain) has completed this cycle and instead of learning from our past, are just pressing forward and making the same mistakes all over again, except this time the "enemy" has wised up and completely changed the rules of the game and upped the stakes.

Man, we are pretty screwed aren't we?

Anyway, here comes a lyrics post!

Max Q - Way of the world

You are born into this world
Looking down the barrel of a gun
And those who hold the gun
Want you to work fast and die young
And if you don't work
If you don't obey
They'll make you live in fear till your dying day
Those who govern hold the gun to your head
With religions, corporations, proud of blood
They've shed

Chorus:

Whether it's God or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

*Repeat Chorus

And the corporate snakes coming in to feed
On that pathetic fact known as human greed
Skin and bone being raked over those hot coals
This dump never seems to give time for human soul
And all those things that we have learnt
No time for questions, you'll just get burnt
You'll just get burnt

Whether it's God or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

*Repeat Chorus

And those words crush you flat
Like your skull's under a brick
And the fear's so damnned strong
That it makes you sick
And you can see right through those eyes
That make you fear, that make you lie
And you're taught to hold high
Yet you wonder why
Dumb values forced upon you by the
Living lie

CHORUS x5 to fade