CHANCRES SET LIST AND LYRICS
Contents
- Dissatisfaction.
- Royal Blood.
- Line 3.
- Sanity Room.
- Santa.
- Faber Castell
- The Differences.
- Known Had I
- Circular Flow.
- My Mistress.
- Society’s Tool
- Fakery.
- Free Enterprise Fans.
- Hypoid Boy.
- I’m Alright
- San Francisco.
- The Burman.
- Airbus.
- Shark in the Carpark.
- Ancient Door.
- Stirling College.
- The Road to Hell
- Mismet
- Slaxter Boy.
- Goodbyes are not Worthwhile.
- Cost of Dying.
1. Dissatisfaction
They’re too slack
Don’t tolerate
Don’t fight back, it’s us they hate
Communal traits well that’s their fate
Herd morality
And sheep mentality
They think they’re rams
But they’re only lambs
Shorn every year by every peer.
2. Royal Blood
Royal Blood, Royalty coming across the sea,
Read about it in the next Women’s Weekly,
What’s the difference between them and me?
Royal Blood; that’s the key
Royal Blood – what’s its consistency?
Royal Blood -what blood group is Charlie?
Royal Blood – what does it mean?
Royal Blood – is it black, blue or green?
Talked about, written about, scandalised,
Luncheons, press visits, being advised,
Equestrians from way back, jodhpurs and ties,
Ascendancy of Britain, all vain lies,
Royal Blood -who’s Princess Anne?
Royal Blood – is she really a man?
Royal Blood – where’s Liz been?
Royal Blood – why’s she the Queen?
Maybe they’re all puppets of history,
An excuse for England’s vanity,
Good for the tourist industry,
I really pity Her Majesty
Royal Blood – is Anne a donor?
Royal Blood – yes there’s no other owner,
Royal Blood – where’s Liz been?
Royal Blood – why’s she the Queen?
3. Line 3
The day is allocated for learning
Are you gunna go to chemistry?
Already your brain is burning
Will you get to line 3?
Chorus
Still, you can’t see why
Why you even try
When lunchtime comes around
You never can be found
You know it’s a mutation
This is your solution
Everything is understood
All the conditions are so good
It’s the only answer
For your constant failure
Chorus
Still, you can’t see why
Why you even try
When lunchtime comes around
You never can be found
Do you know where you’re supposed to be
Instead of going to line 3
You know there’s things you can’t see
You’ll see less going to Line 3
Chorus
Still, you can’t see why, why, why, why
Why you even try
When lunchtime comes around
You never can be found
Verse again
The day is allocated for learning
Are you gunna go to chemistry?
Already your brain is burning
Will you get, to line 3?
4. Sanity Room
Music Intro X 4
Rest, comfort and seclusion
Is what a Sanity Room is for yourself
Now it’s time to cure my delusion, that I don’t need psychiatric help, psychiatric help
Chorus
I’m going back to my sanity room don’t you worry I’ll be alright soon
And there in my room, and now and again, I get my mind toned down again
Oh, no a different situation Oh, no a change of plan, but none of this masochism is going to make me society’s man, society’s man
Chorus
Cos I’m going back to my sanity room, don’t you worry I’ll be alright soon
Here in my room now and again, I get my mind toned down again
Treat everything in moderation, moderation is all you need
But through this mind stagnation, insanity is all I plead, all I plead
Cause I’m going back to my sanity room, don’t you worry I’ll be alright soon
And there in my room and now and again, I get my brain toned down again
5. Santa
I saw Santa at Cooleman Court
I saw Santa at the Woden Plaza
I saw Santa at Monaro Mall
All in the space of an hour
There’s only one Santa that’s what I thought
But I saw seven at Cooleman Court
There’s only one Santa that’s what I thought
But I saw seven at Cooleman Court
Chorus
Come on kiddies
Come on mummies
Come see Santa and spend your money
Come on kiddies
Come on mummies
Come see Santa and spend your money
6. Faber Castell
I’m gonna tell
On Faber Castell
I bought a pencil
That couldn’t get a refill
It was a Gold Faber
A time saver
A HB1 double 2 one
It wasn’t made for fun
It wasn’t made to shun
7. The Differences
Don’t agree
Can’t you see?
Don’t agree
Can’t you see?
Can’t decide
She’s inside
Can’t decide
In her
Chorus
Where’s the thing I had
To notice the line and the differences
Where’s the thing I had
To notice the line and the differences
Bridge
Didn’t you wish I’d lose
That dish, you approved
Didn’t you wish I’d lose
That dish, you approved
(more instrumental)
What you have
I don’t want
What you want now
I don’t have
(instrumental)
Where’s the thing I had
To notice the line and the differences
Where’s the thing I had
To notice the line and the differences
(repeat x 4)
8. Known Had I
(after Thos. Hardy)
Known had I what I knew not
When we met, eye to eye
That henceforth I should view not
Again beneath the sky
So true footed a farer
As you who faced me then
My path should have been rarer
Than it figures, among men
I would have trod beside you
To guard your feet all day
Borne at night to guide you
A lantern on your way
I would not have left you lonely
With wringing doubt, to cow
Old Hope if I could only
Have known what I know now.
9. Circular Flow
Everybody’s sucked into this economic whirlpool
I’m not going to be no economic tool
I’m gonna be different, I’m gonna rebel
Economic war is what that spells
Cause, I’m getting out of the circular flow
I’m not gonna let my money go
My resources are all those firms want
So they can make the things that I can’t
It’s taken for granted that you share your resources
And buy them back, manufactured, from the producers
I’m not a household and I’m not a firm
That kind of branding doesa make me squirm
I’m not anything I’m a recluse
Watch out economy I’m on the loose
Cause, I’m getting out of the circular flow
I’m not gonna let my money go
My resources are all those firms want
So they can make the things that I can’t
I’m not gonna satisfy those firms greed
Capitalist dogs, that’s their creed
Efficiency low costs and all that crap
I’m not gonna listen to that economic pap
I’m getting out of the circular flow
I own so many things, now I know
Time, skills, capacity and so on
Surely that’s enough to go on.
10. My Mistress
(after Wm. Shakespeare)
My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the Sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my Mistress reeks.
But I love her honesty
And I love her truth
I love her intelligence
And I love her youth
(Repeat)
11. Society’s Tool
Got it all ahead of you so they say
Plan ahead
For the future
But I’m not gonna work my life away
I’m not another consumer
I’m no fool
I’m no fool
I’m not gonna be society’s tool
I’m no fool
I’m no fool
I’m not gonna be society’s tool
The prerequisites of success are
The qualities of ambition and greed
And if you have these
You’ll go far
If not, you’re a bludger it’s agreed
I’m no fool
I’m no fool
I’m not gonna be society’s tool
I’m no fool
I’m no fool
I’m not gonna be society’s tool
12. Fakery
There’s too much paranoia permeating our lives
You worry too much and get into strife
You smoke a lot of ice and get offa ya face
And then you find out chicks aren’t made of sugar and lace
Fakery – changing your brain
Fakery – too many pseudos and pain
Fakery – driving you up the wall
Fakery – sometimes feelin’ too tall
Wish life was the way it used to be
We never had to worry no not you and me
But instead all we do is put up a front
While hassling round the place on a reality hunt
Fakery – blinded and lame
Fakery – yeah, it’s all just a game
Fakery – who knows what comes next
Fakery – empty or undersexed
Everybody’s gone to the other side
Listenin’ to disco slick and snide
A booze up with the boys on a Saturday night
But all you want to do is vomit or fight
Instrumental
That’s the way it is and that’s the way you are
You’ve got to get away, go jump in front of a car
You wonder how you’re going to get back to yourself
And all you want to do is just scream out and yelp
Chorus
Fakery – changing your brain
Fakery – too many pseudos and pain
Fakery – driving me up the wall
Fakery – sometimes feelin’ un-tall
13. Free Enterprise Fans
They all think
We want their jobs
But we’re not gonna work
For those fascist slobs
We don’t like you
You make us spew
We’re not gonna do
What you expect us to
So little do they know
Think they’re so important
But we’re not gonna go
For their vapid handshakes
We don’t like you
You make us spew
We’re not gonna do
What you expect us to
Well you’ve got an education
There for the taking
But we’re not gonna waste it
On all that money making
We don’t like you
You make us spew
We’re not gonna do
What you expect us to
They think they own the place
They think they’re so important
But we would like to chase
Them right out of here
We don’t like you, you make us spew, we’re not gonna do what you expect us to…
14. Hypoid Boy
You’re a hypoid boy
Who can’t find a toy
And you’re acting coy
Just like a hypoid boy
Hypoid, hypoid, you’re a hypoid boy
And that’s not strange
‘Cause your heart will range
Like a paper plane
With an unlikely name
Hypoid, hypoid, you’re a hypoid boy
You’ll never be happy
No you wouldn’t be happy
With Debra Harry
Or Myrna Loy
Cos you’re a hypoid, hypoid, hypoid boy
[Instrumental]
So you’re acting coy
Like a hypoid boy
But you are a doy
You’re just a hypoid boy!
Hypoid, hypoid, you’re a hypoid boy
15. I’m Alright
I’m alright I do the right things
I’m alright I know about living
I’m alright I wear the right things
I’m alright, I know about consuming
I wear Levis
And I drink Coke
And name brands are all I smoke x2
They accept me
And that’s real good
To be with them I’d do anything I could
Anything they do I would
Cause I have to fit in, as I should
I wear Levis
And I drink Coke
And name brands are all I smoke x2
I wear Levis
And I drink Coke
And name brands are all I smoke x2
I’m really in with my society
They don’t doubt my integrity
But there seems to be a discrepancy
I don’t have a personality
I wear Levis
And I drink Coke
And name brands are all I smoke x2
16. San Francisco
Jimmy went west on a Greyhound bus
Leaving the village because of the bust
Leaving the village in Persian socks
No longer watching the shows on the box
Jimmy’s got a window seat
And sheepskin moccasins on his feet
And sheepskin moccasins on his feet
Growin’ a moustache for that latest look
Getting into that Chinese fried chook
Going out every night, that place is out of sight
I’ve been watching tv night after night
AII I’m gonna do is fight fight fight
Punching at the air – That’s my scene
Take me to the doctor
My skin’s gone green
San Francisco – what a great place
Everything puts a smile on your face
Groovy people everywhere
It’s just great – you just won’t care.
Driving the kid down to day care
Don’t trust the bus, don’t trust the share
Drop the trips in the forest tonight
Chipmunks and pinecones are outta sight
They were only living
They were only living
They were only living
They were only living
17. The Burman
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na,
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na,
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na,
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na,
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na, Get Lost Get Lost!
The cops aren’t coming, your wheels aren’t turning, the cops aren’t coming, your wheels aren’t turning, Do the Burman! Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na, Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na, Get Lost Get Lost.
Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na, Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh na, Do the Burman, Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, Do the Burman, Get Lost Get Lost, Get Lost…
Nuh nuh nuh…(nuh chocolate or cheese for you, go hyperactive)
18. Airbus
A few simple words, to fill in the spaces where the bridge and the instrumental don’t go
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand them, it’s the way you think they’re supposed to go
Though I love you in many ways, you mean so much to me
They’ll believe you anyway they’ll really climb your tree
The airbus is coming
The airbus is coming
The airbus is coming
Mt Erebus is coming!
(Repeat)
19. Shark in the Carpark
He’s a shark in the car park
He’s a dog shark gonna bark
He’s hanging out of his car
He’s gonna defend his tart (repeat)
Shark, shark, shark in the car park (repeat)
He’s a shark in the carpark
He’s a dog shark, gonna bark
If he stops, he’ll think and drown
He’s an animal, a dog shark
He will search the town
and he’ll search the park
Shark, shark, shark in the carpark
Shark, shark, shark in the carpark
He’ll say anything to her
Anything for another notch
On his rrroot counter.
Shark in the carpark! Shark, shark, shark in the carpark.
20. Ancient Door
(after Thos Hardy)
Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where dead feet walked in
She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
We were looking away,
We were looking away
Repeat x 4
21. Stirling College
You’ll get no knowledge at Stirling College
And all the classes are just real farces
And all the teachers are big fact leeches
At the college, sucking out your knowledge
I don’t want to be sucked so dry
By those teachers who wonder why
Cause there’s no knowledge at that Stirling College
The problem is the ventilation
It doesn’t work, but the teachers smirk
They can take their knowledge from Stirling College
I don’t want to be sucked so dry
By those teachers who wonder why
Cause there’s no knowledge at Stirling College
Shut at two because someone spewed
It was too hot – we had to stop
Perspiration from no ventilation
I don’t want to be sucked so dry
By those teachers who wonder why
Cause there’s no foliage at the Stirling College
The head will suspend you anyway
For anything that you do or say
It’s a cretin’s regime at Stirling College
I don’t want to be sucked so dry
By those teachers who wonder why
Cause there’s no knowledge at Stirling College
I don’t see why those teachers even try
Cause there’s no knowledge at Stirling College
No I don’t see why those teachers even try
Because there’s no knowledge at the Stirling College!!
22. The Road to Hell
I once had a good intention
but I did something else
there goes my hope of redemption
it’s too late, it’s too late
Chorus
Cause the road to hell is paved with good intentions X2
At times I am degenerate
but I don’t feel that way
I think too much about my fate
Who knows it shows?
Who knows it shows?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions X2
I had good intentions, please take that into account
I laid all those paving stones
It’ll be a long path
to my aftermath
I once had a good intention
but I did something else
there goes my hope of redemption
it’s too late, it’s too late
Cause the road to hell is paved with good intentions
The road to hell x4
23. Mismet
And they felt, a waft of charm
When Sid Vicious
Name was said
But the face
And the name
And the place
And the game
Were not alas the right ones
The ones just meant for Sid
Though fine and sweet the features
Murder and suicide is what he did
Murder and suicide is what he did
24. Slaxter Boy
(after Sham 69 Ulster Boy)
Parents in Malaysia, $40 bucks a month they pay ya
Slaxter Boy, Slaxter Boy
You know they’ll be away for a few more years
So when they return you won’t cry no tears
Slaxter Boy, oh Slaxter Boy
Living with a chick in the Manuka Flats
Feeds you too much, makes you get fat
Slaxter Boy, Our friend Slaxter Boy
So now you’re lying in your hospital bed
The remnants of the mushies still flashing through your head
16 reds, in one night
Slaxter your kidneys are a horrible sight
Slaxter Boy, Slaxter Boy
No more drugs for you any more
You’ve landed like the rest
Busted for sure
Slaxter Boy, Slaxter Boy
25. Goodbyes are not Worthwhile
(after Thos Hardy)
It was your way, my dear,
to vanish without a word
when callers, friends, or kin
had left, and I hastened in
to rejoin you, as I inferred.
And when you’d a mind to career
off anywhere say to town
You were all of a sudden gone
Before I had thought thereon,
or noticed your trunks were down.
So, now that you disappeared
for ever in that swift style,
your meaning seems to me
Just as it used to be:
“Good-byes are not worth-while!”
26. Cost of Dying
The sting in a funeral is pretty bad
Like havin’ to pay $15 bucks to see your dear late dad
And what about $700 for the ceremony
When in the will you got cut out and lost your alimony
Cause like the cost of living
The cost of dying’s going up, up, up, up
And even for a modest funeral
$1000 bucks is not enough
The only thing to do is get into a pauper’s grave
Unless for your last act on earth you want to scrimp and save
If you’re thinking about a headstone, or cremation tree
You either got to stay alive or leave yourself in the hands of Jesus
Cause like the cost of living
The cost of dying’s going up, up, up, up
And even for a modest funeral
$1000 bucks is not enough
We’re all stuffed from the start, we’re going to die anyway
So why to foot the cost of dying should we have to pay?
About the price consumer affairs kicked up a stink
Why should we worry, at this age of dying we don’t think
But are we really living, when it costs so much to die? (or tomorrow)
To be buried in a wooden box and claim your place in the sky
Or don’t you care!?