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Time to put the ear covers on…
No!
La la la la
La la la la
Laaaaaaa
La la la la
Born to... Born to multiply?
Born to gaze into night skies?
All you want’s one more Saturday
Well look here until then,
They’re gonna buy your life's time.
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
'Till the day...
You come in doing cartwheels
We all crawl out by ourselves.
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes
You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I try
Wooo, ooooh!
A dual-tone on the wall
A selfless fool who hoped he’d save us all
never dreamt of such sterile hands
You keep 'em folded in your lap,
Raise them up to beg for scraps
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same
Well you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,
You know you'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe
'Well do it now or grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and make of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary
La la la la la la la
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Yeah, Himmler in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim, starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window
No!
La la la la
La la la la
Laaaaaaa
La la la la
Born to... Born to multiply?
Born to gaze into night skies?
All you want’s one more Saturday
Well look here until then,
They’re gonna buy your life's time.
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
'Till the day...
You come in doing cartwheels
We all crawl out by ourselves.
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes
You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I try
Wooo, ooooh!
A dual-tone on the wall
A selfless fool who hoped he’d save us all
never dreamt of such sterile hands
You keep 'em folded in your lap,
Raise them up to beg for scraps
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same
Well you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,
You know you'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe
'Well do it now or grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and make of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary
La la la la la la la
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Yeah, Himmler in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim, starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window
Lyrics submitted by heyheyhey111, edited by honeybee13, yaiir, Gryphoning
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In the first verse he is talking about how fun and easy life is when you are young and innocent. Speaking to a girl who hasn't yet fallen in love but, like most young girls, she is obsessed with boys: "They're gonna buy your life's time." Then comes the Cartwheels line. This about when the girl first falls in love. This is the start of her fall from innocence and distancing from self. Her shape on the dance floor makes Mercer want to gouge his eyes because, in my view, this is his daughter and naturally it is difficult for him to see his daughter grown up and romantically active.
Lets skip the chorus, I have an idea of what he is referring to, but i'm not certain.
Mercer is outspokenly against religion, see here: imgur.com/…. I believe he is speaking about JC in the first verse after the chorus. His point is that Christianity is holding us down, it tells us we are naturally sinners and we must follow God's commandments to to live a virtuous life. Well, I won't get into my views on religion, but I think Mercer's are pretty clear. The next line about being pulled from the ocean refers to being baptized. When baptized, you are held underwater and then pulled out. In this case, once you are pulled from the water, you are confirmed/baptized into the church and thus it is too late for you.
Next, the girl has found someone to marry. But this is not good. Mercer is very pessimistic about marriage in this verse. I believe he is associating marriage with the girl giving up her ambitions/passions/career as her husband is likely the provider in the relationship. The girl becomes raiser of the children. The more time she spends with him, the more her future is sealed and her aspirations go un-pursued. The fact that she was changed by "a potion" tells me that this was a shallow relationship and not a deeply loving one.
Last verse is the most tragic in my view. Androids conundrum speaks to the idea that despite everything we understand about the arbitrariness and monotony of our lives, we do these things anyway, and as we get older we become more and more accepting of these things. We work the 9-5, we live a married life that keeps us from our dreams (why? so we can create more fucking kids?), and we go to church every sunday unquestioning of why the fuck we are apologizing. Furthermore, the emotions, Mercer's emotions, against this expected lifestyle slowly diminishes. In other words, as you get older, your lust for life dies, your desire to rebel fades. The fire inside of you goes out slowly but surely. And in the last line, since he is singing to a younger girl, I think he is saying: so lets go live now, right fucking now! Lets move to AUSTRALIA and leave this life behind!
Lastly, at the beginning of the song we hear, "put ze ear covers on"; though this is minor and funny, this bolsters my theory that he is speaking to his daughter. Certainly, Mercer does not want to enlighten his children when they are young about his view of society and life, but he makes this song for when they are ready to hear it.
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So lets hear it from the horses mouth. This song is about WORK. Working a 9-5, 5 days a week and being miserable until you die. Australia was originally a PRISON COLONY where they sent convicts to work in work camps and where they couldn't escape. Listen to So Says I for similar themes.
Interview with James Mercer nerve.com/content/… :
Let's talk about your lyrics. I've never liked a band more in which I understood the songs so little. For instance, one of my favorite songs on the album is "Australia." ::
Well that song isn't about Australia, first of all. That's from my memories of working in offices. I've had a hundred different jobs, and there is a special kind of sickness doing a job in an office. I was a bookkeeper and a secretary, and there is something so horribly boring and defeating about it. That song is also about this woman from Texas who was just awful, a racist and a miserable person. I felt sorry for her. In Australia, she's Himmler. So it's partly me wondering, "Is this what humans are meant to be doing?" You're in this fucking cage and there's people you can see through the window and you see the gardener and you're so fucking jealous.
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OK lets look at the song again:
Born to... Born to multiply?
Born to gaze into night skies? <-------what is the meaning of life?
All you want’s one more Saturday <------ all you look forward to is the weekend
Well look here until then,
They’re gonna buy your life's time. <---- your boss pays for your time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters <---wick=candle=hopes and dreams. Fetters are what they would hold convicts in.
'Till the day... <-------Till the day YOU DIE
You come in doing cartwheels <---so full of hope and energy
We all crawl out by ourselves. <----which gets sucked out of you
And your shape on the dance floor <--- dancing is expression
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes <----(but you look so depressed that I cant look any more)
You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I try <--- dodo, a fat flightless bird that was hunted to extinction. you have hopes and dreams that get crushed as you grow older.
Wooo, ooooh!
A dual-tone on the wall
A selfless fool who hoped he’d save us all <-people who try to make the world better...
never dreamt of such sterile hands<------dont realise nobody wants to get their hands dirty
You keep 'em folded in your lap, <-nobody bothers to rise up and make the world better
Raise them up to beg for scraps<- all you do is keep going to work under your boss who pays you 'scraps' ie nothing
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same <- and is controlling you by doing this
Well you'll be pulled from the ocean<--- now mercer is looking at the possibilities.
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love<---will it be too late for you or will you escape and find a happy ending?
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes,<-stuck in the office, watching life go by...
You know you'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe<--you wish youd be able to get rid of it all and live a happy life. a 'gardener' from the interview linked above.
'Well do it now or grow old<--escape now! or itll be too late!
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold<- You will be old sooner than you think, life passes by quickly
Been alone since you were twenty-one <- this stanza is pretty obvious. you pretend as if you are happy but you are not.
You haven't laughed since January
You try and make of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary
La la la la la la la
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin<- android=robots=no emotions= you will become numb to life
Yeah, Himmler in your coat, you don't know how long I've been<- himmler= evil nazi boss.
Watching the lantern, starved of oxygen<-lantern starved of oxygen= lamp in the mines starved of oxygen. need fresh air.
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window<- Escape...FREEDOM!
"Time to put the ear covers on…
No!"
- (these are the actual words, not earphones or anything else, it's ear covers, if you listen to the sing hard enough then you will hear this. This line is signifigant because someone is trying to take away a persons ability to hear, and the person obviously doesn't like this idea and gives a "No!" in response.)
"(Born to multiply) Born to multiply
Born to gaze into night skies"
-(this line is very significant if you look at it straight forward, it's saying that humans are born for the purpose of procreating and nothing more. In contrast to this idea, the next line says that we are born to be dreamers, to "gaze into night skies" and appreciate nature and its beauty.)
"All you want’s one more Saturday"
-(This line is saying that all anybody wants is to live through another week, to survive a little longer. Also, who doesn't love Saturday's? You usually get the day off from school or work and you get to sleep in and party. I believe this idea also plays a part in the deeper meaning of this song, if this line was just about surviving another week, why not put Monday or Sunday? It's because on Sunday you go to church (er... well you're supposed to anyways) and Mondays just plain suck. the person wants to live to another SATURDAY, the fun day, the lazy day, the time this person get to relax and I believe this is significant in the fact that this person may not get many "Saturday" like days in the meaning of them being carefree and enjoyable.)
"Well look here until then
They’re gonna buy your nice time"
-(Saying "Well look here" is a way of scolding or speaking to a child, the person telling the other person is an obvious authority figure, telling the other person that some people are going to "buy your nice time". This is the line that shoots up a little red flag in my mind and I automatically think 'prostitute! the person is a prostitute!')
"So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters"
-(This is actually a really deep line, in it, the "wick" represents the persons head and thus if you replace wick with head you get 'keep you head in the air' or 'stay strong/proud'. I didn't know what "fetters" were so I looked them up and the definition for them is- A chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles. So, from this we can rewrite this line as 'So keep your head held high and your feet in shackles', this is a very ironic line and in this irony there is a sadness, this person is in chains and trying desperately to keep strong even though they are in chains as someone elses prisoner... so sad.)
"'Till the day you come in doing cartwheels"
-( This line is saying that the person is only there to bring amusment, by doing "cartwheels" or aka performing sexual deeds to clients.)
"We all crawl out by ourselves"
-(crawling is a pretty degrading way to move around and to crawl out of somewhere is like what you would do after you've just been injured or escaped. Meaning the person who escaped had to a lot of effort into getting themselves out.)
"And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes"
-(This is a very sexual visual, "your shape on the dance floor" is like saying 'how you look when you dance/perform your job and the next line "will have me thinking such filth" its not hard to realize that the "dance" that this person is performing is very sexual and dirty, a type of degrading dance like stripping/pole dancing. It makes the person watching ashamed enough to "gouge my eyes" for watching this tempting and awful sight of the person degrading themselves terribly just for their pleasure.)
(You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum)
-(The girl is not yet faced with the dodo's conundrum because the speaker says "You'd be damned" not 'you are damned', the speaker is identifying himself as a part of the group faced with the dodo's conundrum because he says "one of us". I didn't really know what to make out of the dodo's conundrum part of the song so I looked up conundrum-A question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle. So basically a "dodo's conundrum" would be a pun in that dodo's are extinct birds that can't fly.)
"I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I try"
-(Part of the Dodo pun in that dodos can't fly... and are extinct. The birds still TRY to fly even though they know damn well that it's impossible, but they keep dreaming and keep trying even so... probably why they went extinct in the first place.)
"A dual-tone under wall"
-(This line gives us a setting to place ourselves in, I think of "dual tone" as like ying and yang kind of, though I have no idea what the whole under wall part is about.)
"Selfless fool who hoped he’d save us all"
-(To me, even though I'm not in any way religious, this line screams Jesus at me. I mean they describe him as "selfless" and that he "hoped he'd save us all" the "fool" part is added in because his sacrifice didn't save the girls that's living life as a prostitute.)
"Never dreamt of such sterile hands"
-(The jesus from the previous line didn't think that a person with so few sins/"sterile hands" could exist and still be treated so terribly.)
"You keep 'em folded in your lap"
-(The person is obedient and listens to what they're told, they are docile.)
"And raise them up to beg for scraps"
-(The only time that this person does raise they're hands is to "beg for scraps" like some kind of dog or animal. This is a very demeaning line to me, this girl is hungry and begging, the only time that she uses effort is to get something she needs to survive, other wise she is very docile and complies with her owner.)
"You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same"
-(This is also an incredibly demeaning line. Even thought the girl is begging and docile the "he" mentioned is suppressing her spirit and her will to live, "holding you down with" just "the tips of his fingers" the person hardly puts in effort when controling the girl.)
"Well you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late"
-(This line is really sad, it's saying that she'll be saved from the hell she's living in, only for her rescuers to be just a little to late to find her dead or her spirit completely broken.)
"Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love"
-(These lines are a little sick in the sense that the girl is being tailored to fit the needs of someone who bought her, "changed by a potion" and losing herself in the process. The second line "you’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love" has a sort of fairy tail feeling to it when the reality is far darker and much more twisted, instead of a prince, the girl is getting a master for her to "love" in the sexual way, not the emotional way.)
"You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes you know"
-(I looked up pining- Suffer a mental and physical decline, esp. because of a broken heart./Miss and long for the return of. And I looked up damned even though I sort of knew what it was already... I wanted the definition, damned-(in Christian belief) Condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell: "the spirits of the damned". So this line is saying that the girl will be condemned by god to look threw windows at a life that should have been hers and suffering mentally and physically from the life that she lived instead... sad huh)
"You'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe"
-(I for one would trade my life with an ordinary Joe if I had that sort of life. But this is also a pretty sad line because the girls would give up all that she is in a heartbeat in order to be someone else. A person is supposed to be prideful in who they are, and when they aren't it's just sad.)
"Will do and I will grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold"
-(This is a kind of disturbing line because if the girl isn't living her nightmare right now them what other horrors could the future hold? The fact is that her nightmares really only do need a year or two to unfold.)
"Been alone since you were twenty-one"
-(I interpret this line as saying that she was like abducted or something when she was twenty-one, like how people drug and abduct girls and sell them into sex slavery and she has essentially been isolated from everyone that cares about her.)
"You haven't laughed since January"
-(This shows that she's depressed in the environment that she is in and hasn't been happy in months.)
"You try and make of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary"
-(These lines show that she's trying to make the best of her situation and that she's trying to do her 'job' well, even though it's the exact opposite of what she wants to do.)
"Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum"
-(First she was "damned" to be one of them but now she "Dares" to be one of them, and because he's daring the girl he's asking if she's courageous enough to be strong enough so that she doesn't need to cry anymore.)
"I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin"
-('Take one on the chin" means to receive the full brunt of something or to stand up to something adverse, such as criticism. I can infer from this that every time the people receive the full brunt of their emotions that they don';t cry, they just bottle their emotions up whether they want to or not.)
"Yeah, Himmler in your coat"
-(This line confuses me, I looked up Himmler and this is what came up- Heinrich Himmler 1900–45, German Nazi leader and chief of the secret police. I don't really know hoe this relates to a coat or what ever so I'm just not gonna comment further and let you guys decide what you make out of that.)
"You don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen"
-(From theses lines you can guess that the speaker of the song has been watching the girl for a long time and that her soul is the "lantern" and the speaker is watching it be stifled from her environment making it "dim starved of oxygen" fire needs oxygen to survive just like humans need affection to keep themselves going, the oxygen being affection in this case or humanity.)
"So give me your hand and let's jump out the window"
-(I think suicide when I hear this line. I thank the speaker and the girl commited suicide together to escape they're "conundrums" and terrible lives. Or they're simply finally escaping together without killing themselves but I think suicide is more likely... again uber sad line!)
Holy fucking shit that was a long review! My opinions are given on a line to line basis for your convienience and the song in my opinion is about a girl that's found herself living as a prostitute. I have no idea why the song is called Australia other then the fact that slavery (sex slavery) happens a lot over there and that its not very uncommon or any of that... I don't know though... I love this song though and I always hummed along until i wanted to learn the lyrics so that I could sing along... then I realized how disturbing they are! Still love this song though!
"the selfLESS fool who hoped he'd save us all never dreamt of such sterile hands".
To me this line says the sames thing as the Thermal's lyric "we were born to sin".
Here the 'selfless fool' is Jesus. And though he 'died for our sins', even he knew it was impossible to live life without sinning. Which goes along with the theme of the song as not living your life to the fullest.
All you're doing with your "sterile" [sinless] hands is keeping them "folded in your lap, and raise them up to beg for scraps". And that just leads to a life of being "damned to pining through the windowpanes."
(Born to multiply) Born to multiply
Born to gaze into night skies
You are born to learn about things, and sometimes it doesn't work out
All you want’s one more Saturday
Well look here until then
You want more time to get away from the people who you dislike, but just stay quiet until then
They’re gonna buy your nice time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
These people are going to pick on you for no reason, so just stay low until you can get away from them
'Till the day you come in doing cartwheels
We all pull out by ourselves
Because one day, you will be free of them, and it's just you who managed to do it, even though we feel people helped us, it generally wad you
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes
I think this line is about unwanted jealousy a bit, because if they are happy and the (author) is not, they don't want to feel that way because it is their friend
You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happend every time I tried
I think this is pretty straight forward, this person belongs with them, constantly getting picked on, but when they try to get away, they cant (faced with a dodo's conundrum---dodo's couldn't fly)
A dual-tone on the wall wall
Selfish fool and hoped he’d save us all
I think the dual tone on the wall part means a shadow, always following you around
Never dreamt of such sterile hands
You keep 'em folded in your lap
And raise them up to beg for scraps
This bit, I think, is how you feel unproductive, and you just take what you can get
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same
For you to be be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
We’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love
I think this part is about how, if you are constantly being pressurized you can't get away unless the person who is making you pressurized is gone, or you'd need to have a potion, with the help of friends, you'd find somebody that you can trust
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes you know
You'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe
You and I will grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
Eventually, you'll be complaining about even the small things, and you would gladly change your life for another person, and as this goes on, so will your worst nightmares
Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and think of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary
People say it will go away, but whatever they say seems to be the opposite
Damned to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Your humor in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window
So, you are stuck with them, and you can#t live your life, cry or feel emotion, and even when you do try to hide it, you can't. So you start counting down time, and get fed up and leave with your friends.
This is just my interpretation, I cold be way off
'Born to multiply' (to procreate and pass on genes) 'Born to gaze into night skies' (to appreciate beauty) 'All we wants is one more saturday' We just live to find the next happiness.
Dodo's can't fly and androids can't cry but the feeling is real, and that feeling is happiness that we constrain ourselves. Longingly looking at the world with elbows perched on the windowpanes, and he ends the song with offering a hand to jump out the window. It's about breaking out of the box that constrains us and just being happy
Why it was called Australia . . . well, I think I'll go there and find out eventually :D
No!"
-forcing music
"(Born to multiply) Born to multiply
Born to gaze into night skies
All you want’s one more Saturday
Well look here until then
They’re gonna buy your nice time"
-they're telling her that the only reason she was born was to multiply so quit dreaming because others will buy her time
"So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
'Till the day you come in doing cartwheels
We all pull out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes"
-so do as she's told because shes a prisoner until she can impress. because what shes presenting now is painful.
" You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happend every time I tried"
- they're telling her that she doesnt wanna be one of them because it would leave her brainless, although they've tried to impress it never worked.
"A dual-tone under wall
Selfish fool had hoped he’d save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands
You keep 'em folded in your lap
And raise them up to beg for scraps
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same"
-dual tone automatically makes me think of checkerboard, the selfish fool symobolizes the girls handlers, which happens to be a dr, holding them down with no effort at all, but still holding them down he keeps his hands folded in his lap until their done "impressing" and he gets 2nds. thinking that this song is about the MK Ultra experiments that happened in the 40 and 50's experiments, where girls were put through traumatic events to disassociate themselves from reality, they had handlers that were often dr.'s that sold them to men to do whatever, and later the dr.s would sexually traumatize the girls to the handlers liking to teach them to dissociation for when a client comes.
"But you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love"
youll either drown or die or be changed entirely for the clients liking
"Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and think of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary"
Youve beed isolated for a while, you try to think of this as fun (disassociation) but they all know its not.
"Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Your humor in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window"
-So they're telling her to be one of them brainless and following orders, she doesnt want to but she's past the point of feeling any pain, & hides any emotion, they're watching her until she burns out, but all she wants is freedom.
So this is a song either about prostitution or a girl being held in an asylum during MK Ultra experiments. or brainwashing, because they talk about lack of emotion and disassociation and robotic emotion of being programmed to be emotionless and just following orders.... I think it would be relevent because this song did go mainstream, and its got all the key words to describe the consipracy of the MK Ultra experiments.but of course i could be insanely wrong
Time to put the ear COVERS on…
No!
La la la la
La la la la
Laaaaaaa
La la la la
(Born to multiply) Born to multiply
Born to gaze into night skies
All you want’s one more Saturday
Well look here until then
They’re gonna buy your LIFE'S time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
'Till the day you come in doing cartwheels
We all CRAWL out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes
You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happend every time I tried
Wooo, ooooh!
A dual-tone under wall
Selfish fool and hoped he’d save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands
You keep 'em folded in your lap
OR raise them up to beg for scraps
You know he's holding you down
With the tips of his fingers just the same
WILL you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
AND find a handsome young mate for you to love
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes you know
You'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe
Will do OR grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and think of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary
La la la la la la la
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
YOU'RE HIMLER in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window
ps: Australia WAS/is an island prison colony where the prisoners no longer know they're not free.