1.A Gathering
Hey, everybody
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
Hey, everybody
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
Hey, everybody
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
Hey, everybody
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
It's a 24／7 party in my brain
My inner dialogue and me are at it again
I don't need I.D or security
The gang's all here and everyone is me
Hey, everybody
Its a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
Hey, everybody
Its a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering gathering
My demons are at the window lobbing cans
Guilt is fussing round with a brush and pan
Ambition's in the bathroom washing her hands
Anxiety is spewing up in the pot plants
Obsession is manning the turntable decks
Indecision keeps making song requests
There's a conga line of my failed conquests
Playing drinkin' games with my self respect
I, I, I may contain traces of nut
I, I, I may contain traces of nut
It's not a party, it's more informal
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering
Yeah cause such distinctions are important
It's a gathering, gathering, gathering, gathering
It starts in the morning
When I'm lathering, lathering, lathering, lathering
And keeps going way into the dawning
With its blathering, blathering, blathering, blathering
There goes the teacher who said I was dumb
There goes the girl who said I was no fun
There goes my youth it must have had work done
Cause it's lookin' way better than when I was young
There goes my id sculling vodka martinis
There goes my conscience confiscating his car keys
There goes my future in fancy dress
With a sickle and a skull mask, let me guess
My attention span's bouncing off the walls
My alter ego's urinating in the halls
I don't need a ？ to take me down
Don't worry you won't have to send the police round
It's a racket in here and you won't hear a sound
Hey! Everybody (x3)
It's a gathering...
2.Root, Shoot, Marry
In your younger years you swap around ideas
Like people that you meet in bars
Sometimes they're keepers or one night sleepers
Sometimes it's just au revoir
To prove you're not a pleb
You need a cool celeb
A way of life that can be lived
But how do you pick the shit
from something thats the shit
I got this idea from TV
Root, Shoot, Marry
The quality of the philosophy
Where it's got to be down to a choice of three
Root, Shoot, Marry
Is it seminal, is it the venerable
or just a waste of time in general
Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Existentialism, well it really isn't a pit for more than just a
fling
Though if all heart wind if your beard is indie it can be a
fashion thing
Some halls of residence, semi-feminist will quote you from the
second sex
Then turn into their mum their rebellion is to be the token
hooker at the fancy dress
Root, Shoot, Marry
Is it quotation, is it vocation, will I survive the TV style
elimination
Root, Shoot, Marry
Is it a soul mate, cameo role mate, not with someone else's ten
foot pole mate
Train fanatics (Root, Shoot, Marry)
Drain fanatics
Straight edge (Root, Shoot, Marry)
Burners of hedge
Family first against parenting (Root, Shoot, Marry)
Luddites into geocaching
The society for not letting the Boogeyman in (Root, Shoot,
Marry)
People fighting people who are fighting things
Just like tattoos some things will stay with you
Whether you like them or not
Like the ink of Rico, go peek out of your window
although some think it's a just plot
Of all the big life missions got to be religion, We all want
security
In this human race all things have their place, except Reiki
Root, Shoot, Marry
What's it gonna be, sing along with me, everybody get into the
stupidity
Root, Shoot, Marry
Are you right mate, get in the climate, and act just like a
knuckle dragging primate
Root, Shoot, Marry
(Woo, oh)
Root, Shoot, Marry
(Woo, oh)
3.Indistinguishable
Me and my free thinkin' friends
Deep in Melbourne's Paris end
Composing rebellion's libretto
Over an astringent ristretto
Me and my free thinkin' friends
See us in the izakaya den
We watch you queue as we push through
We eschew what's on the menu
Cause we're
Indie - Indie - Indie
Indie - Indie - Indistinguishable
Me and my free thinkin' friends
Eat Mexican at ten PM
But we'll drop that like a hotcake soon
Cause fad restaurants are so jejune
Me and my free thinkin' friends
Observe a common mutual regimen
We keep a car for emergency
You have to go far for good coffee
When you're
Indie - Indie - Indie
Indie - Indie - Indistinguishable
See us in the Sunday magazine
Our screenplay is called 'The Intifada'
We work in the retail industry
Our beards look just like Che Guevara
Me and my free thinkin' friends
Drink Estonian vodka blends
We take a notebook to parties
For writing observational poetry
Me and my free thinkin' friends
Don't condescend to facile trends
We saw the arseless chaps before they were big
We left when somebody else walked into the gig
Cause we're
Indie - Indie - Indie
Indie - Indie - Indie (Yeah!)
Indie - Indie - Indie (Indie Indie Indie Indie!)
Indie - Indie - Indistinguishable...
4.Stop
The reality losers, mercenary causes and their teary flatulence
And the judging abuses, pantomime poses to a screaming audience
And the marketing minions coming on like they're doctors of
psychology
And the daily opinions on trivial shite by self-endowed
celebrity
And the orgy of technology, with it's use by date myopia
And the brand ubiquity like some Phillip K. Dick dystopia
And the network providers, financial advisers and self help
vipers
They all shit on the windscreen of life, What I'd give for a
huge set of wipers
Stop, in the name of love
Stop, in the name of heaven above
Stop, for the sake of love
Stop, Stop
Whatever happened to subtlety, the complex beauty of things
unsaid
Whatever happened to thinking before you say the first thing
that comes in your head
Of course I'm not talking about a lifetime Trappist vow
Just pause some elegant resonant silence right now
Stop, in the name of love
Stop, in the name of heaven above
Stop, for the sake of love
Stop, Stop, Stop
It'll do you no harm, against the glamour of clamor
With the rhyme of kind give the world a break
It's the biggest statement a person can make
It might catch on and we'll be not talking about a revolution
And then one day someone will say something, and it'll mean
something
In the name of love
In the name of heaven above
For the sake of love
Stop, Stop, Stop
In the name of love
In the name of heaven above
For the sake of love
Stop, Stop, Stop
In the name of love
In the name of heaven above
For the sake of love
Stop, Stop, Stop
5.Smash It
Me and the girls are such lookers
If you like tangerine hookers
Hey bitch, you know we own this place
We raise a glass up to your face (Smash It)
Me and the boys we're a team,
A Homo-erectus drinking machine
Later on we both step around
Some losers head upon the ground
Smash It
Everybody, Smash It
I'm an Aussie sporting hero
If it's not about me I know zero
I hammer it after the match
Then back to trophy girlfriend's flat (Smash It)
Me and the gang up at Schoolies
We prove who has got biggest ghoulies
We're out of our heads on a tubing spree
Like George of the Jungle watch out for that tree
Smash It
Everybody, Smash It
Smash It
Everybody, Smash It
Get together all your cash and give it to a dealer
You'll have a massive heart attack, Deposit on his villa
Lets take this party higher, lets set someone on fire
We can't get any hotter in here, I'm a climate change denier
Smash It
6.Pseudio
I might like Bon Jovi, I might like Little Joe
I might have missed the zeitgeist, But it's still rock and roll
to me
My record collection is probably all wrong
I'd rather that than be someone who sounds like a Phil Collins
song
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio, Pseudio
I don't give a shit about Crikey, I don't pontificate about the
issue of the day
I didn't have a fit at Kate Miller-Heidke and what she did and
say when she went on Q＆A
You judged me by the books I read and my political leaning
I file in from the CBD, I get this funny feeling you might be
a...
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
It's not a word I know,
But if it was you'd be a
Pseudio, Pseudio
You don't tell me I just know, You don't eat at Taco Bill's
When you're seen at Mario's it's not some guy's place in
Endeavor Hills
Your accouterments are your Armour plate your confidence begun
You set into intimidate and mow down everyone
Was there some kid in primary school who thought your lunch box
was a laugh
Cos now you wear exclusion like a fucking Richmond footy scarf
Everything about you seems placed there for effect
You're cool even when you're uncool, It leads one to suspect you
might be a...
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
Ps-Ps-Ps Pseudio
P-S-E-U-D-I-O
You got me all worked out
7.Market Forces
There were no tank columns around
No soldiers firing into crowds
The day that Market Forces came to town
Protectionism failed us
They kicked the levies down
The day that market forces came to town
They took health, education, government
While we went on shopping benders in their detention centers
In a black whirl of addicted swoon
The consumer is consumed
And this is their battle tune
Come with us, everyone raise your hands
Together in celebration
'Cos we've got the perfect plan
We're one big connected nation
In our workplace they broke up resistance cells
Not passionate about your job, You are an infidel
And all the universities churn out business minds
No student radicals round here they all got privatized
Get fucked capitalism, sorry
GFC won the battle not the war
'Cos debt is recovery
We might have known Big Brother would end up a show on TV
Orwell's ghost looks knowingly, freed and savory
Come with us, the future is ours to be
And changes of information
Cos culture is tyranny
The past is a limitation
We've got the technology
To follow our aspirations
There was no angel of death
No lamb's blood upon the door
Just some kid at Centerlink saying
They don't need your type no more
I never thought they'd come for me, right here in my home
I never made any connection between the illness and my new phone
Apparently they found the cure in some lab in Japan
But never manufactured it cos costs exceed demand
As I took my final breath the doctor held my hand
He said it's just market forces son, I know you'll understand
Come with us, empowering the oppressed with instant
communication
And bringing down governments with freedom of information
We're smashing the boundaries of darkness and subjugation
The past was so wild and free our dreams can mean realization
To choose a reality of government mancipation
We're making our history
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us
Come with Us....
8.Being
I sit here minding my business
Overcome by dizziness
At the boundless magnificence of my insignificance
From my workstation I can see, out my window endlessly
A world of me's inexorably, finesse their company CV
While I fuss about the writing plate, my soul dies interstate
The hours late fate lies in wait, like the cancer cells in my
prostate
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
I'm a cornflake on cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
on a cornflakes packet
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Being Busy
Life is too move but we entomb it
And timing incremental movement
To ignominious ？ ？
It's called continuous improvement
9.Warning：
Poets are the world's unacknowledged legislators
Humorists, a lesser somehow greater
Ironists, riddle me this
What's hardest to do, easiest to dismiss
Warning (x3)
I may contain traces of nut
To capture the world in a couplet is a gift sublime
Try making it funny, at the same time
It's a higher art but the way to disguise it
Guarantees everyone will patronize it
Warning (x3)
Yeah any shithead can throw mud against the wall
All sound and fury, signifying fuckall
Sit back in feted insouciance
While the listener makes patterns in their pretty mess
I blame Bob Dylan, he wrote the book
Let a cavalcade of charlatans off the hook
Got something to say, they've got you worked out
Got nothing to say, your genius is never in doubt
Warning...
11.Something Good
Something good will happen to you
Something good will happen to you
Something good will happen to you
Something good will happen to you
May the sun light up your winter lawn
May the dark be followed by your dawn
May your girlfriend salve your deepest fear
May your boyfriend touch away your tear
May your enemies all fade away
With the worries you had yesterday
May you not mind if your train's on time
Or your shopping trolley wheels align
Something good will happen to you
Something good will happen to you
May your souffle rise, may your roses thrive
May you always see with childhood eyes
May you never lose your shopping list
May your bum never look big in this
May you always balance up your till
May you have some left after all the bills
May your satnav not lead you astray
May you instinctively know the way
Bad times loom like a drunk in the bar
Avert your eyes, still there they are
They might not land a punch this time
But then you beat yourself up, that's the crime
May someone's car break down in the rain
May someone else catch a later train
Where they sit near someone who's just resigned
Who reads their newspaper from behind
Where they find a job that becomes the one
Where they meet someone who knows someone
Who brings someone new to your door
Who helps you find what we're all looking for
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Amity
Equanimity
Sanctuary
Sanctuary (may you find)
Amity
Equanimity
Sanctuary, Sanctuary, Sanctuary, Sanctuary
Something good will happen to you
Something good will happen to you
12.f Only I Was A
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