While Iran insists their missile exchange with Israel was merely a 'halted' tiff, one suspects the truce is hanging by a thread thinner than Kim Jong-un's patience. Mother Nature has also been in a frightful mood, shaking the Philippines with a magnitude-7.8 quake and drowning parts of Asia in monsoon rains, proving that the planet remains the most unpredictable actor on the world stage. Meanwhile, football fans are realising the US World Cup is strictly a 'look but don't touch' affair thanks to delightful visa restrictions, and South Africa is rekindling its shameful love affair with xenophobia.
Iran and Israel exchange missile strikes
Magnitude-7.8 earthquake kills dozens in Philippines
Xenophobia and World Cup visa controversies
Indifferent Stock Music
🎵 (s)Hit of the Day 🎵
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📜 Lyrics 📜
[Intro]
[Electric Piano intro with Drum Machine]
[Verse 1]
The missiles fly across the border line
A truce dissolved by deadline twenty-nine
Tehran promises a week of endless fire
Then halts the attacks as if to cut the wire
But everyone knows it's just a strategic pause
For the quarterly reports and the applause
[Chorus]
It's all synergy solutions for a broken world
As the chaos and the profits are unfurled
Optimise your tragedy for better yields
Amid the wreckage of the bullet and the shields
Just another metric on the spreadsheet of the dead
With nothing left to fear and nothing left to be said
[Verse 2]
The earth it shakes in islands far away
A magnitude that brings a terrible display
Whilst monsoon rains descend on Asian land
Sustenance and ruin walk hand in hand
It's just a shifting pattern on the global chart
Where nature plays a very heavy part
[Bridge]
[Slap Bass Solo]
The people in the stands will stay at home
Travel bans forbid them still to roam
The World Cup is a privilege for the few
While borders close and fences start to brew
In Johannesburg the fear is running high
As ultimatums underneath the burning sky
[Chorus]
It's all synergy solutions for a broken world
As the chaos and the profits are unfurled
Optimise your tragedy for better yields
Amid the wreckage of the bullet and the shields
Just another metric on the spreadsheet of the dead
With nothing left to fear and nothing left to be said
[Outro]
[Cheesy Synthesiser Strings fade]
The election in Armenia went their way
And Pyongyang welcomes a guest today
Just small print in the annual review
For me and for you
Synergy solutions
Synergy solutions
[End]