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No Place Like Anyplace

by General Pants & The Privates

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I swear Too much Sing 'fuck' A lot But I can't convey emotion much clearer than that You're a Fuck up You've got No luck Or so you say, or so you say But you're just a petty whinging twat And I'm so sorry but we're all out of manners again Stocks won't come in 'till we've all confessed our sins I'm not religious, but I know when I'm letting every other human down You're not saving anybody, you're just bumming them out So don't blame me Don't blame me for this And I believe, I believe that the ground beneath us will crumble and turn us to ash And I believe, I believe that we're wasting our time when we pass around quotes and facts And I believe, I believe that the warning we had was always more than fair And I believe, I believe that everybody needs a breath of air You're a Deathstar You're like Hitler You pull it off, it must be the way you're just so inconsiderate Hand me Pamphlets Tell me I'm an idiot I'll still think you're, I'll still think you're I'll still think you're an ungrateful fascist prick And I'm so sorry but we're all out of manners again Stocks won't come in 'till we've all confessed our sins I'm not religious, but I know when I'm letting every other human down You're not saving anybody, you're just bumming them out So don't blame me Don't blame me for this And I believe, I believe that the ground beneath us will crumble and turn us to ash And I believe, I believe that we're wasting our time when we pass around quotes and facts And I believe, I believe that the warning we had was always more than fair And I believe, I believe that everybody needs a breath of air A message to creator, Mother nature, God or Karma Be you of colour or a bender Be you mother or a father Be you bearded man in clouds Or a shining orb of light Or a bunch of ewoks floating about in space Be you a learning AI program Be it all just in my mind May you stand for love or hate May you stand for beer or wine Be you Morgan Freeman's voice Or Dr. Freeman's crowbar Or a sentient sound Or Chuck Norris' face You've made such a big call To make humanity at all Or did you just create the apes And we're just their species evolved It doesn't matter I don't care To me we're just a rock in space And there's no one near to help us when it's all gone I'm agnostic not confused I take no side I'm just amused By your idiocracy And how you still try to get through But hey we're all the same We all just want to be heard Though I'll accept that I'll never be heard at all And I'm a shit stain Writing on a piss stain The world will always stay the same I'm screaming at the world And you're an O2 waste You try too hard to make a change And admit that you're not doing great You're screaming at the world I swear Too much Sing 'fuck' A lot But I can't convey emotion much clearer than that You're a Fuck up You've got No luck Or so you say, or so you say But you're just a petty whinging twat And I'm so sorry but we're all out of manners again Stocks won't come in 'till we've all confessed our sins I'm not religious but I know when I'm letting every other human down You're not saving anybody you're just bumming them out So don't blame me Don't blame me for this
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It's good to know you, Nice to meet you! I've got no ire and I've beef but I can't believe you When you say that it's All figured out. "Piece of cake," you said, "Not a problem, Everybody needs to turn their air-cons on!" You're such an idiot You can't be serious The third rock will melt and be gone And I feel no pain, yeah And I feel no heart attack And this world keeps spinning And it ain't ever turning back All my friends Have pissed on everything and All my friends Have kicked down everything and All my friends They waste the words we sing and Everybody's friends Have fucked up everything! All you solutions Smell like faeces It's no surprise when your best mate's a monkey so Build them coffins and dig them holes As our great minds pass away We're lost at sea now We've no more guidance No one to teach us none to remind us That the sea is ablaze With the fuel the fuel that we needed to kick back and laze away And our ancestors look down And say "My god what have you done? Clearly our words of wisdom missed your thick heads! Where did we go wrong?" All my friends Have pissed on everything and All my friends Have kicked down everything and All my friends They waste the words we sing and Everybody's friends Have fucked up everything! You watch the re-runs On the TV Leave it all to science It should be fine it should be easy After all, what could you do? You know you'd never volunteer You'd rather brush your teeth with glue You make a pamphlet Build a website But no one really cares so you give it up you've tried It's how our minds go It's how the world flows We're laying on our backs as we all let out a sigh 'cause None of us will be alive On the day the planet is torn apart And there's no burden on our minds While knowing Our future generations are fucked! All my friends Have pissed on everything and All my friends Have kicked down everything and All my friends They waste the words we sing and Everybody's friends HAVE FUCKED UP EVERYTHING!
3.
There are bees, in the garden, Hives of angry little gods - think on that. They live little lives in little days, Toiling three square meals away, Only to make us all a tasty snack. There are roaches, in the sewer, Swarms of hungry little plebs - watch em breed. They are members of the ninety nine, Reviled by all of humankind, Bound to outlive all races and all creeds. There are beasts, called homo sapiens, All shapes and sizes they come in - to be sure. And so to classify their phobias, They invent all kinds of slights and slurs, And live out their lonely lives locked up indoors. Hard as it is, to draw a line, Under what exactly is divine, On this earth we share there is eternal truth. That truth was told by just a man, On a stage in front of a big band, Who played as he sang of a joyous youth. Whoa-o, Whoa-o! Babies crying in_the dark sacred night, Whoa-o, whoa-o! Roses blooming under clouds of white. There's a book, that's known to many, From its pages many lessons have been learned. But the fact is, folks - those pages wrought, Destruction, death and pain untold, Not much value from that can be discerned. And our differences, well there are plenty, But our similarities are more than few. For the longest time we killed and fought, Thinking nothing of the pain we brought, To the people that we are and that we knew. There are beers, in the Esky, And there's music playing on the radio. So let us indulge, in excess and vice , Don't you dare to think you'll live twice, Find some solace in the answers we all know.
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Does it make you wonder why the bee must die When it stings you in the finger just to give you teary eyes Just like the girl Just like the girl Of course you had to tease her mum 'cause you yourself only had one You missed out on a kiss you had only stealthily touched her thumb Limp in the well Limp in the well And they'd bring down satellites And they'd pull down the whole damn sky And they'd make you see the tears from their quiet cries And they'd tell you that it's all alright A man with a bomb, a detonator and a gun Stands in a room he cannot run No one will breathe No one will breathe His palms are sweating, they're betting that he's not a man He detonates and is blown apart like sand No more enemies No more enemies And they'd bring down satellites And they'd pull down the whole damn sky And they'd make you see the tears from their quiet cries And they'd tell you that it's all alright Still you let her fade away Still you treat it as a game Just to impress mankind but they won't feel the same When you find the ones you loved can only sway
5.
In a sense, We're all innocent, 'Til other hearts feel fit to set, Limits on how much love we're right to give So we're bound, To live and let, Lives that grow tired again, Feel the frost of a menage a zilch alone in bed Draw lines around, around your picture again, Feel fine as long as I am blind and deaf, Even then my mind paints oils of countless faces, Occupying spaces, In the museum in my head Optimism, Has never been, A destination that's easy to see, The light at the end of the tunnel is always dim A year, A month a week a day, And though I feel inclined to stay, Another second in this place might draw my wits to their ends Early mornings and late bedtimes, Are walls, iron bars and deadlines

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Our rehearsal studio of more than 2 years, Anyplace, is being demolished. So this little EP of rehearsal demos, primitively recorded, is our way of celebrating Anyplace and spaces like it. Without spaces like these, local independent acts such as GP&tPs would struggle to get off the ground. Thanks for giving a shit about us. -xrn

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released December 21, 2012

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General Pants & The Privates Sydney, Australia

General Pants & the Privates are a 'so-much-more-than-a-' ska band from the inner west of Sydney, Australia. Our turn-ons include ridiculous cocktails, people who dance, and the appropriate fucking use of swearwords.

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