Verse 1 - Early 1990s
Gulf War, Desert Storm, Hubble launch, Mandela freed
Berlin Wall, Balkans war, Rodney King, L.A. heat
Grunge wave, Cobain gone, NAFTA sign, Rwanda bleeds
World Trade bombing, Waco siege, Oklahoma tragedy
Yeltsin tanks, Russia shakes, Clinton sworn, NAFTA trade
Bosnia, Haiti peace, O.J. chase, verdict made
Sarajevo, peace accords, Unabomber in the shack
Princess Di, Hong Kong gone, Kyoto pact on track
(chorus)
We live inside a dumpster fire,
Roll in a trash can pyer,
Chaos burns up ever higher,
Can’t put out the dumpster fire
Verse 2 - Late 1990s-2000s
Y2K, dot-com rise, Columbine, Napster’s here
Chads hang, Bush wins, 9/11, smoke and fear
Patriot Act, Afghan war, Baghdad falls, shock and awe
Columbia, SARS, Madrid train, Euro coin, Iraq law
Facebook, YouTube, Katrina floods, London bombs, quake in Pak
Pluto out, iPhone in, Beijing games, market crack
Obama win, Gaza war, Haiti quake, Iran green fight
Swine flu, BP spill, WikiLeaks in plain sight
Verse 3 - 2010s
Bin Laden down, Arab Spring, Japan quake, tidal wave
Fukushima, Occupy, Sandy’s wrath, Snowden flees
Boston bombs, Crimea seized, ISIS spreads, refugee tide
Brexit votes, Zika fears, Paris shaken, leaders hide
MeToo, Vegas shots, Hong Kong streets, Yemen starves
Notre Dame, Greta speaks, Amazon and coral scars
COVID looms, Australia burns, Beirut blast, Floyd’s last cry
Capitol storm, vaccines, billionaires in space fly
Verse 4 - 2020s
Ukraine fights, sanctions bite, Roe reversed, heat domes swell
Maui burns, AI art, ChatGPT, climate hell
Turkey quake, Gaza war, moon landers, spy balloons
Evergrande, crypto crash, Mars still a distant tune
James Webb sees the past, Artemis is set to go
Monkeypox, TikTok bans, Hollywood on strike show
Heat records, ice collapse, droughts spread, rivers dry
El Niño, fusion spark, still no end, we wonder why
