Once A Jolly Swagman, Always A Jolly Swagman (1997)
I don't care if you're bored and all alone
It's 'cause you can't afford to buy some friends or speak by mobile phone
If you're wondering why everybody's stepping on your face
It's 'cause you don't have any money and you've been put in your place
So why don't you get down on your knees?
I'm richer than you
Why don't you get down on your knees?
I'm richer than you, yeah
I don't care if you're falling all over the place
Because we just can't stick around you and there's someone in your face
You're listening to everybody singing in dialtone
You don't have time to wait around, that's why you're all alone
So why don't you get down on your knees?
I'm richer than you
Why don't you get down on your knees?
I'm richer than you, yeah
I don't care if you're bored and all alone
It's coz you can't afford to buy some friends or speak by mobile phone
If you're wondering why everybody's stepping on your face
It's coz you don't have any money and you've been put in your place
So why don't you get down on your knees?
I'm richer than you
I'm richer than I'm richer than I'm richer than you!
I turn you on at 6 o'clock
Why is it that you're such a cock
You smile and tell me that it's a good evening
Then you put on that stupid frown
Talk about the bullshit going down
It's hard to stop myself from leaving
When you're looking like there's something wrong
And looking like it won't be long
Till you tell me all 10,000 people are dying
Then you wipe off that stupid frown
Why don't you take a look around
It's hard to stop myself from crying
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I don't care ???
Why can't you see it's just a game
Your christian viewpoint's just the same
As the arsehole that some phoney judge is trying
I'm sure that were all well aware
That Roger Climpson dyes his hair
Doesn't it make you wonder if he's lying?
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I wish I was as credible as Roger Climpson
I don't care ??? commercial break
what can you say what have you done to me
why can't you just listen to what you say
why can't you say what you mean to me why don't they just go away
and say i don't want to see you again
i never want to see you again
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
why can't you say the things you hate
the most why can't you consider just what they say
i never know why it's so now just fuck up and throw it away and say
i don't want to see you again
i never want to see you again
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
what can you say what have you done to me
why can't you just listen to what you say
why can't you say what you meant to me
why don't they just go away and say
i don't want to see you again
i never want to see you again
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
you're ok, i don't like your friends
I know you're wanting things to change
Why can you see that they're just the same
We could be so strong if we tried
Why can't you just see the other side
There must be a million
There must be a million
There must be a million ways to try
Why can't we talk about what went wrong
When you're face to face with a uniform
I don't have to trust what you believe
It's not that difficult to see
There must be a million
There must be a million
There must be a million ways to try
Why can't we talk about what went wrong
When you're face to face with a uniform
I don't have to trust what you believe
It's not that difficult to see
There must be a million
There must be a million
There must be a million ways to try
[Verse 1]
Walk into my ward, stand beside my bed,
I look at you, but you stare at your feet instead,
I'm on the verge of collapse,
I've got needles running through my veins,
And i'm bleeding from my dick
and my hair's falling out and it's driving me insane,
Hey hey hey hey insane,
[Chorus]
Chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy.
[Verse 2]
I've lost control of the functions that i once had,
The doctors tell me that it's really not that bad,
I don't want to wake up with a warm patch in the bed,
And you want to get up but you can't so you don't,
So you go back to sleep instead.
Hey hey, hey hey, instead,
[Chorus]
Chemotherapy, chemotherapy
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy.
[Verse 2 (repeat)]
I've lost control of the functions that i once had,
The doctors tell me that it's really not that bad,
I don't want to wake up with a warm patch in the bed,
And you want to get up but you can't so you don't
so you go back to sleep instead.
Yeah yeah, instead,
[Chorus]
Chemotherapy, chemotherapy
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy,
I'm having chemotherapy, chemotherapy.
Why are you so conservative?
Why have you got nothing to give?
You're so suspicious in every way
Why have you got nothing to say?
Who can you trust?
Why are you always in control?
We used to hide all your stuff away
When i come round wanting to play
You're never open in any way
Why have you got nothing to say
Who can you trust?
Why are you always in control?
We used to have so much fun before you learnt to use your gun
You make me worry 'till i feel sick
I have to run so far away
Who can you trust?
Why are you always in control?
You know we belong together
You and i for ever and ever
No matter where you are
You're my guiding star
And from the very first moment i saw you
I never felt such emotion
I'm walking on air
Just to know that you're there
Hold me in your arms don't let me go
I want to stay forever home and away
With you each day
Let me be the one
That you turn to
Someone you can rely on closer each day
Home and a...
Go
Walking by myself oh how I wish with someone else
Oh we could be so strong
It didn't have to happen if I bought myself a gun
He would have been on the run
What fun
'cause he's a fucking genius
He's a genius a fucking genius
He's a genius he's a genius
A fucking genius
Walk away if your reactions are gone
I can't believe he thinks this is fun
I would love to be inside his head
If it's empty there's no room for me to
kick out both his eyeballs, and punch out both his ears
I'll find the braincell that he's got
Play ten-pin bowls and fuck it up
But it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter a bit because
He's a fucking genius
He's a genius a fucking genius
He's a genius he's a genius
A fucking genius
His intellect is far beyond you and me
He's so smart he can't even speak
I wish I understood all that he knows
Just hit me and I'll understand
the word he yells from his car as he drives along
If only I had studied more I might have known the origins of
maarmumarr
He can lecture with his fists
He's pissed and he's a fucking genius
He's a genius a fucking genius
He's a genius he's a genius
A fucking genius
He's a genius he's a genius
A fucking genius
Why can't you see you shouldn't have
generated all this bullshit while you had the chance
The power that you have is such a waste
Don't try to extend your hand
'cause all I've got to tell you
Is that I don't give a fuck
It's such a Fraud
it is such a fr-orrrrrrrrd
When something hits you in the face
maybe you would notice if it hit
below the waist
Perpetuate the tired and backward taste
Don't try to extend your hand
'cause all I've got to tell you
Is that I don't give a fuck
I'm not a coward I've got sense
When it comes to self-defense
I'd rather leave the scene than fight
You can try and you just might
You can succeed to make me bleed
RUN!
Run away from this anger
if you just can't stand the ground
Look at what you've found
Start to pray when you hear the speech
Of what are you looking at
Well I'm not looking at you
Don't delay if you can't escape
It's harder to rationalise when all you feel is hate
I can't perceive why you demean yourself
and all those around you
your rudeness astounds me
Yeah... gonna have some fun
Yeah... with everyone
Yeah... gonna have some fun
Yeah... we're gonna have some fucking fun
Touch the sky with your middle finger
When it gets too hot distraction's all you've got
We can deceive if it's only hope
Deception is easy when you're dealing with dickheads
Get off
Get off
Don't skate
Too late
Walk straight
You are trying to protect your face
Can you see that it is a disgrace
disgrace
you can't take us down
You can't take us down...
Get off
Don't skate
Too late
Walk straight
You have lost respect you never gained
Do we have to fight you to explain
explain
you can't take us down
You can't take us down...
Get off
Don't skate
Too late
Walk straight
Get off
I trusted you with everything between my head and soul
but maybe now you don't believe I've got one
Say that I don't understand but fucking hell I tried
but you just drank it up and spat it in my face
because
I hate the way you hate
That'll be it ???
Looking down the barrel of a gun
Can't see what you have won
Underline putting the emphasis on fun
catch a glimpse out of the corner of my eye
of all the traits I try to hide
Don't beat yourself up about the future
just drink yourself into another stupor
We're middle class, white
Suburban males
Nothing that is said or is spoken
Puts the truth in the open
No regrets we don't lie about our sheltered lives
I didn't realise that it mattered
where you came from
Take a look at yourself
Looking down the barrel of a gun
Can't see what you have won
Why try to hide when you might
just as well have been crucified
Why be ashamed when there's nothing that can be done
Take a look at yourself
Don't speak when you're spoken to
If you can't say something nice
just say what you like
and if you can say what you like
don't say shit
If you want to speak your mind
watch and you will find
that no-one cares
and if they care
then they won't want to know
I know your resistance is futile
Don't be afraid to say
whatever comes your way
because if you don't you will regret it
and you're pride will go
If you want to wait in line
don't walk across it
If you want to, fine
or if you don't you should never try
I know your resistance is futile
When you're never saying what's on your mind
Do you think about what you do or what you say?
Does it matter who gets fucked along the way?
Is it worth the effort just to see them pay?
If everybody does it doesn't make everything okay
I'd like to wipe this, I'd like to wipe this from my mind
I'd like to step away, I'd like to step away
I am so sick and tired of this, tired of this
Would you like to go away, away from here
Where you don't have to address what you can't hear
All that you do, you don't believe everything
All that you do, you don't believe anything
Would you like to go away, away from here
Where you don't have to address what you can't hear
All that you do, you don't believe everything
If you weren't here we could believe anything
I like you to talk to
I don't want a hard sell
Hold on to yourself
Maybe find someone else
I want you to stay back
You could lose face
The time hasn't come to
compromise but when it does I'll cut you down
and I don't want to fuck you
Well I think you're really nice
but I couldn't bring myself to fuck you
One, Two, Three, Four...
Why can't you see what you do to yourself
When you get down on the floor
You'll graze your knees, wet the floor
disgrace yourself and someone else
I want you to get real
Don't trust your instincts
The time hasn't come to
compromise but when it does I'll cut you down
and I don't want to fuck you
Well I think you're really nice
but I couldn't bring myself to fuck you
You can come 'round to my house but I don't want to fuck you
Well I think you're really nice
but I couldn't bring myself to fuck you
I'll bring you down every time
you wanted to come around
It's a shame I'm not ashamed
'cause it's just a fucking game
I'm anger?? and it's in me
Nothing you say will sooth me, oh no, oh no
Is it me or are you colourless?
Your ignorance embarrasses, oh yeah, oh yeah
Now see all the things you discriminate against
But it just seems as though there is no thought at all
Tell all your friends of the freaks in the store that you laugh, we're bored
You stare and you point, but the point is you're sight, it is tunneled, stupidity
Well the bile in my throat is the sickening that you caused in my hope, in my hope
I'm not a racist or a homophobe, but I think I'm a dumbaphobe
It's as though you won't walk
Sup...
Comes in a box
It will fuck you up
It speaks so softly to you
tell you to have a sup
It's moselle, chablis, rosé, reisling
When you think it's gone
Well you know it's not
Just blow it up
Because you know that it's all you've got
It's cheaper than the box it comes in
4 Litres...
Choke on number 1
Retch on number 2
When four comes around you know that it's all good news
Only buy claret if it's the last goon in the shop
4 Litres...
It's up to you sup the goon
It's up to sup
It's up to you sup the sup it sup it
4 Litres...
Misinterpretations over-blown
Question all the thought that I've been shown
And I don't know what is real
Only you can tell me how to feel
Ask me if I'm tripping and the answer is 'who knows'?
Did you understand what I just said?
Interpretations of a sexist joke
And I don't know what is real
Only you can tell me how to feel
And I don't know how to feel
And I still question what is real
I can hear a car alarm in the distance
And I'm sitting in my attic all alone
And this one wish keeps on creeping inside my pointless imagination
Is that I could have another cone with you
You said you'd see much more often
But I'm staring at my carpet once again
And I know I could break down the walls and prove our communication
If I could have another cone with you
yes, if I could have another cone with you
Well I know that it's unreasonable to want to talk it through
And I say that I don't understand but you tell me it's not true
I know that if we had a smoke we'd start anew
If I could have another cone with you
Well what you say, what you say, wanting your own space
and I know that it would be different if you'd just get off your face
I know that if we had a smoke we'd start anew
If I could have another cone with you
Well I know that it's unreasonable to want to talk it through
And I say that I don't understand but you tell me it's not true
I know that if we had a smoke we'd start anew
If I could have another cone with you...
I never liked the way you're pushing me around
I couldn't stand it when you thought that you had found
Someone you're bigger than, I know it's just a front
You walk right up to me and whisper sweetly to me
Kaan Kaant
I'm gonna fight you
You think authority can knock me to the ground
I've come to realise it's not what you've found
Someone you're bigger than, I know it's just a front
You walk right up to me and whisper softly to me
Kaan Kaant
I'm gonna fight you
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(?)
Oh how can i fuck the system
When i just can't get it up
(x2)
You say you live only by the new revolution
Didn't even tell me that a radio solution
Oh how can i fuck the system
When i just can't get it up
(x2)
And when it rains
You're shouting out at me
I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up
You're like a rainbow
Your love is best for free
I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up
You're like an angel when you give me your love
Because i just can't see to get it up - FUCK YOU!
You say you're talking bout the new revolution
Didn't even tell me that a rain were a solution
Oh how can i fuck the system
When i just can't get it up
(x4)
Don't walk alone!
Don't walk alone!
Don't walk alone!
Don't walk alone!
Cause there's a ??? getting bigger
Get it bigger every day,
It's been far, but lots of men look like it's here to stay
It's possible to break away, it's possible to ignore,
It's possible to lock away, because they make the laws
???
God have one exception,
If we locked it up!
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back, don't trust a redneck
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back and you don't trust a redneck!
Nah!
Don't walk alone!
Don't walk alone!
Cause You're an alien in your old street, you're alien in your town.
Because alien's a place where redneck ??? us down
??? ruled by uniforms, her ??? and her fights.
Because redneck can't be trusted, and ??? put in their place.
And we have planned our progression from such pointless God.
God have one exception, If we locked it up!
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back, don't trust a redneck
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back and you don't trust a redneck!
You can't trust a redneck!
Because you can't trust a redneck!
No, you can't trust a redneck, redneck, redneck, redneck, redneck!
You're an alien in your old street, you're alien in your town.
Because alien's a place where redneck ??? us down
??? ruled by uniforms, her ??? and her fights.
Because redneck can't be trusted, and ??? put in their place.
And we have planned our progression from such pointless God.
God have one exception, If we locked it up!
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back, don't trust a redneck
Don't lay down, don't relax,
Don't sit back and don't trust a redneck!
You don't trust a redneck
How can you be seeing clearly?
How can you be seeing straight?
Live with me and go your own way
???
Cause if you can't live without me, why aren't you dead?
I never bought you clothes or earrings
I never bought you drugs to taste
That's OK cause friends all told me
You only like me when you're off your face
Don't come crawling back to me cause
If you did I'll have to literally
Sell your stuff, your bed, your clothes
Even your sonic youth CDs
And those stupid little boxes that you keep your jewellery in
I'll send Jahovah's Witnesses around to your house and tell them that you wanted saving
I'll tell them that you always wondered what it's like to be a christian
Then I might come round and kill all your pets and leave them under the staircase
You might wonder what the smell is but you would not find it for weeks
So maybe it would be in your best interest to fuck right off and leave me alone
Maybe you should move to another city, that would be better
Cause if you think that we're good together
You're fucking stupid cause we don't relate
I'd never do anything to hurt you
If I had a shotgun I wouldn't hesitate
