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lyrics

You fall asleep in a piggy hotel
On the back of ‘Bleach’ and Irvine Welsh
Cause Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Giddens fucken lied

I dig your house it’s a fucken nice home
I hear your Ma’s suburban lock and load
Is the white picket fence out front import Wallachian pine

I still see steeple swords
Attacking lower house law
Why haven’t we cut the fucken cord

Seventeen in a Leeton high school
Taught by Rohm, part time host playschool
What do I believe?

Why the fuck should we have to be nice
When some among us don’t share the same damn rights
It seems to me I don’t owe no apology

The burning bin on Elizabeth Street
Pointed to a biblical defeat
The needle in the class of 1989

Nevermind the refugees in
John Howard’s administration
They found their own Karma Sutran lines

Dreadnought Maggie’s housewife tabloids
Daughters Cleo, Dolly and Boy’s Toy
Bullshit primetime ‘Triumph des Willans’

Try bein’ my colour in Cronulla
When all your friends go home and watch ‘Airport Sec’
And Kruddy-love expects us all to integrate

“No fucken Kashmir in my club”
“Don’t make me call security, Vic Thug”
Who shoot dead teenage boys in local parks

Government cock-knuckle contradictions
Interstate civil war mongering frictions
Julius Streicher politicians

Livin’ in a bedrock nation state of
Burning beds and racist sexist
Redneck arsehole population
Suicide in old sheep stations
Women with black eyes in waiting
Counter-action education
Fireballs at Frankston Station
One Nation capitulation
Lead us not in to temptation
Late night paddy wagon transportation

Sleeping in a suburban police station

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from When I Left Town, released February 16, 2024

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Sordid Ordeal Melbourne, Australia

Sordid Ordeal are an Australiana stout rock band from Naarm. They combine folkish story-telling and
ballads with blistering, mangy rock and epic anthems, welding together both the abrasive & heavy
with the gentle & intimate.

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