A Man's Not A Camel (1999)

I smoked a pack of cigarettes before midday
I coughed up a lung around one
I can't see a thing through my eyes that sting
I can't remember having so much fun

[Chorus:]
Well I've never had so much fun
No I've never had so much fun
I can't remember when I've ever had so much fun

Can't drink the water in Sydney
Can't eat the food in Japan
Can't breathe the air in Los Angeles
but a million people think they can

These wankers filled up with hatred
Why expect any less
If they can't decide about genocide
I think it's time that they took a rest

I try to compensate blindly for mistakes
Try to make things right
For all my redemption I've the best intentions
But it's always ending up in a fight

Never felt bad lending a hand
I think you hoped I wouldn't be in a band
Broken ashtray I can always replace
I kick the door then I spit in your face

You are not my friend
Never ever again

Dream of sunsets with a drink in the sand
Of all my friends and losing money in the van
Remember holidays that weren't such a waste
And a broken jaw from a punch in the face

Picture perfect with a frame that pretends
To be a martyr for a cause with no end
I was thinking that you needed a break
What I meant was every bone in your face
A mental photo of discoloured eyes
Of dirty carpets and moistened thighs
These recollections I will keep to the end
I'm sure it's wrong that you were never my friend

Never touch a man with the power to exploit
Never touched a wanker with the power to reform
Dare to act now, and be proud
When you shout something make sure it's out loud
Don't have much time for making up laws
It's not as important as fighting for your cause

Dont trust em all
These are the rules
Most that you can change is someone else

It's up to you to fight
You've got to be strong when you're right

Do it for the power of obvious lies
When the real power brokers are in disguise
You teachers, priests, family and friends
When your own education is a means to an end
Don't believe the artificial state of the state
You think so now but it's never too late
Fuck all the heroes
Fuck all of their rules
Throw a spanner in the works

It's time to exact that fire inside
Something about the reason but no reason to hide
I never under estimated the power of one
I never feel safe when done is done
You're life's not empty
Stand and fight
One thing you can change

I know that we all have differences
I'm not bothered 'cause I've seen them all
I'm the best guy you're ever going to meet
I won't listen to your point of view

I know everything

I know every paradox in politics
I've been every place around the world
On every subject I'm a known authority
No need to argue 'cause it won't get through

I know it won't be long
'til all my closest friends have come and gone
Freedom, I don't know what it means
The right to hate is part of me it seems

I know everything from history
I don't need to watch the news
I find it easy with my vast intelligence
No one tells me anything new
I often wonder why no one talks to me
They must be threatened by my charm and grace
I know everything about everything
I'm especially witty when I'm off my face

Another Sunday morning
another boring day
Another lonely sunrise
takes my breath away

I miss my lung
I thought you'd never leave me
god how I was wrong

A part of me is missing
It seems it's been so long

I miss my lung
After all the songs are sung
I miss my lung

I tried to forget you
And live with my regrets
I tried not to miss you
I recall your lovely breath

I miss my lung
As vital as the sun
I miss my lung

Worse than a broken heart
Worse than a poison tongue
Worse than an evil eye
Is you missing lung

I took you for granted
It's ended up in tears
I miss you more than showers
It's been about a year
I loved you like no other
How can I live on?
I hope that you can hear me
It's for you I wrote this song

[Chorus]
Twenty past four and we're feeling kind of bored 'cause there's nothing to record and we're poor
There's nothing on TV, how can that be? Not even bullshit I don't want to see

Spent all day in bed, throbbing in my head, my legs are made of lead
feeling dead, there must be something to do to loose this mood
I looked in the kitchen, there's not any food
Something must be done, I'm craving some fun

Put on my favorite band, yeah we need to make a plan
Well I really hope we can 'cause the situation can't be much worse today, nothing's OK
If I worked I probably wouldn't get paid
We start to fight
Then we decide that

[Chorus]
We're going out tonight
Yeah we're going out tonight
We're going out tonight

[Verse]
Walk to the shop, CDs I can hock and that suck 'cause they never
give you much but I don't give a damn we're sticking to the plan we need to
buy some beer now the hour is getting near to the time that we know we've
really got to go, we're sitting in the park and it's getting pretty dark
We have a sup
now things are looking up

[Chorus]
We're going out tonight
Yeah we are going out tonight
one two three four!

[Interlude]

[Verse]
Now the time has come, we're going to have some fun
Now it's understood the night is looking good
Let's go out and find someone to shout we'll get to the pub and there's
going to be no doubt that
There will be some trouble there, broken glasses and stupid hair
We'll be without a care all night, cause

[Chorus]
We're going out tonight
Yeah we're going out tonight
We're going out tonight

We are going out tonight
Yeah we are going out tonight
We are going out tonight

1,2,3 the phone's for me yeah
I don't want to get it but my mind disagrees
Running out of patience but I can't break away
And now it's taking so long to find a resolution
The pain I'm going through there must be a solution
I can't be the one to give her total absolution
I'll send her nothing good

Does it make you feel good to make me miserable
Or is a power struggle completely unfeasible
Every time we speak you're convinced I'm unreasonable
I'll get through it I've found another way

Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, it's the one thing that is clear

Everything I say seems to get me in trouble
I only feel better when I'm seeing double
Now there's someone else I think that we can resolve it tonight
It's going to be alright

Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, 'cause tonight is all that's here
Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, it's the one thing that is clear
Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, to you I send my only friend

Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, to anesthetize my fear
Let's drink a beer, let's drink it here, destroy your fear

Gone so long the days for thinking, hear that final call for drinking
I know there's been a lot of problems, not too many ways to solve them
Seems hopeless what can be done yet, I feel the need for icy comfort

Let's drink a beer

I know why dinosaurs became extinct
it's because they learned how to
suck their own cocks

Well I needed to define what it was that made you mine
Was it pity or disgust I used to know but now I just don't trust
Since the accident, what it was you meant
I convinced myself it was heaven sent
that the ambulance was sent
And I wish I had disguise, please let ignorance provide a shield for covering
my pride might restore my faith in good yeah a wish I understood but I
don't care I just need another 'lude and intravenous food

I don't need your loving all I need is a spinal operation

In my weakened state I might, independence I won't fight
Cause I don't need your sorry eyes or was that just terrible disguise
or was it loose, thinly veiled hate I understand why you didn't want to
wait, when it's time to operate

Now I'm running out of time now I know that hate is blind
It's all legal, not a crime I give consent to your detriment
Press the buzzer and you'll know it's time ask the nurse she'll say
everything's fine
Take a scalpel to my spine

I've been living without a face so I can't face the day
Civil war behind my eyes I'm the only one to blame
Take a step back and run and hide
I'm looking for an enemy or a friend from deep inside

My self destruction increases my cred
I need to be real and I need to be fed

As broken as an unloved skateboard at the lost and found
As tired as a rabid dog waiting at the pound
I like to live and I've got reasons to destroy
Try to stand the test of time, my mind is not a toy

My self destruction so easily led
No need to now I'm wrecked inside my head

Wake up to this self abuse this trait is not a crime
I've seen the way to live with poison everything turns fine
Listen up to the soft words to myself
Time to ignore these little voices and pretend I'm someone else

Monitor my intake and I'll document this time
Give me something to believe in give me cheap-arsed wine
Self destructor gripping onto what life there's left to live
What's the point in giving up when there's nothing left to give

He's not very fast but he's a racing machine
Often comes in last and he's not very clean
Very rarely wins but sometimes gets a place
Not exactly healthy but at least he's in the race
Coming up the inside or bringing up the rear
Always hope it rains 'cause then he's in the clear
We never fix races but I could be wrong
So always put your money on Frenzal Rhomb

Gambling is a curse but it can be fun
Especially when it's Frenzal racing at a hundred to one

Don't break your legs

Go Frenzal Rhomb

don't talk to me of your ideas and the things I cannot do
don't tell me off for what I want, no, that's for me to choose

you yell at me with numbers and a life you'd like for me
but I say just take two steps back and you can wait and see

'cause this is our time now we've got to stand up and shout out
I'm the problem with society, I'm the problem with the world today
I'm the problem, solution, got to make them pay

I've listened to your doctrines and there's no sense in the least
I could have been mistaken are you father fuckin' priest
and once again I'm treated like an enemy of state
but as get upon that pedestal remember who dictates

and so now I'm forced to recognize your thinking is a cage
I've had all that I can stand of "come on son just act your age"
if your idea of growing up means living with this shit
you can take your phoney pompous crap and shove it where it fits

I woke up half an hour ago
I don't remember much and I'm feeling slow
I don't know how but I know I lost all my friends
Every time I see you now you're picking a fight
I know I must have said nothing right
Do you think that this is going to make a change

Do you want to fight me? Hand to hand
Do you want to fight me? Now's your chance

Can you tell me why I'm so objectionable
Is it personality or just my smell
When you look like fighting I look sick
Is it a disorder a doctor can fix
or are you just a violent mother fucking son of a bitch
When you put me to the floor you know I'll get back up again

Do you want to fight me? Now's the time
Do you want to fight me? Stand in line

It's obvious it's too late to make it right
Talking sense to you is going to take all night
I'm going to get a beating unless I make a plan
I know you want a piece, sorry I'm so slow
One more bevy I'll be ready to go
And run faster than I've ever run before

What the hell are you doing later on
I've got some beer and I don't have a gun
I wanna find out I wanna try out
The possibilities of having some fun

And I'm seeing now that
I've never seen this place before
And I'm realizing

I'm alone
Got no home
Need a loan
But I'm not on metha-

There's a time for and there's a place for
Ultra-violence and it's not on my side
I tried to dissect but where's the respect
There's still respect in an inanimate life

And it's looking like
It's time to escape again
There could be something wrong but

I'm alone
Got no home
Need a loan
But I'm not on methadone
Need a phone
With a tone
But I'm not on methadone
I just don't
Have to go
Cause I'm never liked your clothes
Or your style
You're a pile
Why don't you stay a while

And I'm realizing I've never tried
To see anything the same

Of all the good things
Of all the ugly things
There's a point where you don't have to hide
It's time to understand
That even Superman
He had his problems
But he knew how to fly

I don't want to be your designated driver
when it's much more fun to be passed out in the corner
I don't want to meet your girlfriend of the moment even if she's
rich and has never been a truant
Can you listen to me closely
Unless your hearing impaired in which case you'll probably
talk quite stupid

Don't talk to me, Don't look at me, Don't you speak again

I don't want to sleep with faces in my bed, it's just the fuckin'
same as what your putting in my head
I can't listen to your patronizing bullshit, don't
touch my face or I'll throw up on your cushions
I can't listen to you closely
This story's boring me to tears, could listen or just go to sleep
but what's the difference

I'll be here to the end not meaning to offend, some things I
can't amend, you're lying to my friends, you're trying to pretend,
it's happening again...

Some people say you're not bright as such, it wouldn't be
because you drink to much
Don't need to get that excited about the fact that you're talking
to a paralytic lout I know you want to go, there's nothing to
delay us, except fighting the crowd in this organized chaos.
I wouldn't be surprised if you looked into my eyes and you
didn't see a thing but I'm feeling like a king.

I have seen the wasted youth that have no fear of dying
I've seen the urban prophecies of which there's no denying
Look alive look alive plan ahead chaos coming to a head
There'll be black thunder, there'll be lightning

I've seen a million faces, I've seen a million days
Take a look down and realise there's not much left to say
This won't change your mind

I've seen the writing on the wall
And I know it all to well
I've heard enough
The road is looking rough
I know this all to well

Superstition, do you believe your lucky number's seven
You might as well convinve yourself that we're all going to heaven
I don't beleive in a second guy that gives me wine from water
He'll never say you'll never know just what's around the corner
This won't change your mind

I've seen the writing on the wall
And I know it all to well
I've heard enough
The road is looking rough
I know this all to well

I look back and wonder just why just no one saw it coming
I'm looking forward to the time we're fighting and we're running
We could live another thousand years no one can tell
Take your apocalyptic thoughts and you go straight to hell
This won't change you feeble stupid fucked up little mind

I've seen the writing on the wall
And I know it all to well
I've seen the writing on the wall
And I know it all to well
I've heard enough
The road is looking rough
Tomorrow's wasted time

Tim and Candy getting real sandy
down at the beach but he's a leach
He's all bleached blonde white teeth, nothing wrong
she's got a brain
it's causing her pain

John's with Kim but she likes Tim
she only wants sex but she's with his ex
She wants more, thinks life is a bore the shore's not enough
the guys are too tough

Summer's here the rain has gone away
Summer's here all thinking's gone 'til May

Tim and John swear nothing's going on
It's a god given right on a Saturday night
Two drinks later John becomes a traitor
it's always the same everybody's fair game

Summer's here put the top down and drive
Summer's here now we're being burnt alive

Bleached bland, polluted sand, there's nowhere to go, dull eyes so low
Tim, John, Candy, Kim, let's not pretend, that's it for them
If you dig a little deeper, an hour, 4-litres, the truth does reveal
we cannot conceal
It's written plain and plenty, a face full of envy in all of our
thoughts and all of our hearts

Summer, discontent
Summer's here put the top down and drive
Summer's here now we're being burnt alive
Summer's here and we're almost naked
Our tan is deep but no-one knows we've faked it

I've just shit my pants, is that a problem?
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Can we do it again?
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Shit this fucking sound of your fucking ???
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I like that shit ???

I don't want to see the world today, I wish it all the way.
I dreamt I lived under a sun.
Now I'm sleeping in my car.

I don't wanna go to work today.
I'm not getting to go there today.

I don't wanna go to work today.
I'm not getting to go there today.

Is I ever worked ever.
Oh yeah go Lindsay go! Yeah bring it on take me to the bridge Doctor! Come on! Come on! Twice!
Solo

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I don't wanna go to work today.
I'm not getting to go there today.
I can't open my eyes today.

We got that in your bag

I've felt like this a lot before
A thousand times or more
Saving face or deep regret
Laziness of self-respect

I don't wanna go to work today.
I'm not getting to go there today.

Should we have solo here?

I don't wanna go to work today.
I'm not getting to go there today.

Yeah