A Race To Go Nowhere (11.11.08)

Coast to coast failure,
It’s not even
Worth trying,
It’s just
A race
To go nowhere
With your life

Everybody
I once knew
Are dropping dead,
Beat up
And worn out
From a race
To go nowhere

Ya gotta do
Something worth doing
With your life,
Don’t throw away
Your life
For a race
To go nowhere

I’m trying
To be
A famous singer,
And it’s hard
But it
Keeps me going
With my life

I’ve taken myself
Out of
A race
To go nowhere
And put myself
On a road
That goes somewhere
But I don’t
Know where

Always Come Prepared (30.11.08)

Everything
Has already been planned
For us
But we
Don’t know
What they have
In store
For us
But we should
Always come prepared

Always come prepared
For anything
Life throws at you
‘Cause nobody
Can help you out
Of the ditch
You dug,
They have
Their own problems

I’m always ready
For whatever
Life throws at me
‘Cause I know
I can do better

I always come prepared
For all eventualities
But I still can’t
Be perfect
And some things
May defeat me
But I always
Get back up
And keep on fighting
The good fight
But I still
Always come prepared

As The World (Wanted You To Be) (10.11.08)

Don’t go changing
As the world depicts
Who you are
To be

Just be yourself,
Don’t bow
To immorality
As the world
Wants you
To do,
Fight the people Nazis
And prevent
Soul conformity

As the world
Wanted you
To be something
You could not,
You changed
So much
On the inside
That I don’t
Know you
Any more

As the world
Wanted you
To be
You have become
Your worst nightmare,
A clone
And conformist
To their views

As the world changed
You wanted to change
With it
Just as they
Wanted you to be
Like you,
They, and many others
Are you
And every other conformist
In this world

Australians (Under Fire) (15.11.08)

We are men
And women
Of legendary stock,
The toughest bastards
In the world

Our soldiers
Are the most respected
And feared people
In the world

When Australians
Are under fire
It seems
To bring out
The best
In us

We showed
The Germans
(Bloody Huns),
The Turks
(The Emir’s Men),
And the Japs
(Divine soldiers)
How tough
We really are
But there is
No hard feelings
Between good mates

When the going
Gets tough
The tough
Call in
The Australians,
Even when
Under fire
We showed
Our enemies
That they
Didn’t mess
With bastards
Like us

We were cut down,
Slaughtered
And poorly led
But we
Always made
The impossible
Seem possible

Suicidal charges
Are the favourite manoeuvre
Of the Australians
And it seems
To work
For us only
But especially
When under fire

We are
The silent heroes
Of too many campaigns
And too much loss

We took Beersheba
When the British
Thought it was impossible,
We smashed
The Viet Cong
In their own territories
At Long Tan

We have proven
Our worth
To the world
And we are
Not going away
‘Cause we are
Too valuable
To lose

The bloody Imperialists
Didn’t think highly
Of the uncivilised bastards
Called the Australians
But we showed them
Courage under fire
At all costs

We have
The courage
Of a people,
The strength
Of generations
And the tough country
We call Australia

The Germans,
The Turkish
And the Japanese
Now all
March with us
As good mates
And drinking buddies
But we
Will not
Forget the past

Even though
The Australians faced
The toughest adversaries
While under fire
We showed
The patience
Of a green nation

Our forefathers
Started a proud
And upheld tradition
Of military service
And sacrifice
And now
We will
Have to continue this

We broke Rommel,
Hitler and Mussolini
For a great cost
While preventing
A far
Greater cost

The unknown soldiers
Of many battles
And on many battlefields
Hold testaments
To our resolve

War has toughened us,
Made us strong
And united us
Under one banner
But it cost
Over 102,000 lives
Of sorely missed
Australian heroes

If the time passes
That Australians
Are involved
In another
Major war
We will answer
The call
To serve
So proud
Like
Our forgotten heroes

The men
Who rested victory
From the claws
Of defeat
Now lie
In never forgotten fields
Of torturous mud
And relentless rain

Avenue (10.11.08)

It’s the only
Avenue of escpae,
To die
Or to die,
What a choice?

To escape
Is the only avenue,
There is
No other option

There’s nothing
But lies
Surrounding me today
The avenue
For escape
Is to tell
The hard-fought truth
That lies
Still in your heart

The avenue
To Hell
Is the only way
To escape
These lies

Don’t forget me
If I die
‘Cause it was
The only avenue
Of escape
And it was
The only one
I was
Willing to take

The avenue
Of escape looms,
Closer than ever

Away From (The Shadows) (10.11.08)

Stay away
From the evil
That lurks
In and around
The shadows

Dark clouds
Come screaming in
From the east,
They’re telling us
To get away
From the storm
That’s gonna
Wash us away

Stay away
From the moonlight
Which casts
The shadows
We can’t see
And stay away
From the sunlight
Which betrays
The workings
Of the shadows

Stay away
From the shadows,
The places
Where evil lurks,
Grows and waits
For an innocent
To walk by

The reality
In our hearts
Can’t be resisted
When we are near
The shadows
So move away
From the shadows
But don’t
Let them know
Your plans

Barack For Obama (09.11.08)

The presidential campaign
Ends on November 4th
When the Americans vote
For the black,
Celebrity and super star,
Barack Obama
Or the white,
Senior war hero,
John McCain

In the election
I will
Barack for Obama
‘Cause we don’t need
Another Bush
In control
Of the world
And the USA

I will
Barack for Obama
As he uses
His appeal
To destroy McCain
And his running mate,
Sarah Palin

The polls
Says Obama
Is trouncing McCain
So I will continue
To Barack for Obama
Until he becomes president
Of the US

I will
Barack for Obama
As will he be
The first
Black president