It's so easy to be a tub of lard
Just sit around
Not think too hard
And never know what's going to happen
And never take off the wrappin'
It's so easy to be a tub of lard
Just sit around
Not think too hard

Tub Of Lard, live at Robs Garage July 2011

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

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

Didn’t you wish I’d lose
That dish, you approved
Didn’t you wish I’d lose 
That dish, you approved

What you have
I don’t want
And what you want now
I don’t have

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.

The Differences, live at Canberra Irish Club 23 July 2022

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.

Sanity Room, live at Canberra Irish Club 23 July 2022

Vale HMQEII, a life dedicated to service. There shall be no charisma without a Crown.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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?

Royal Blood, live at Robs Garage July 2011

The Road To Hell

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!!

Stirling College, our alma mater

What You Said

This track is about the protagonist of our rock opera, a rather feckless chap named Lyall. His mouth fills with bile when confronted with the travails of daily life.

Lyall, theme song of our rock opera

Extension Piece (live)

(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"!

Goodbyes Are Not Worthwhile

The Burman (feat. Clive Smith)

Airbus is about the appalling Air NZ flight TE901 Mt Erebus disaster. a DC-10 not Airbus, but that didn't scan.
~~~~~~~
Just 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!

Airbus (live)

Known Had I

Sanity Room (live)

Slaxter Boy

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…

Free Enterprise Fans

My Mistress

Sanfrancisco

I Dont Want Your Economy

Cannibal Street

(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

Ancient Door

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 to get another notch 
On his rrroot counter.  

Shark in the carpark!

Shark In The Carpark (live)

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