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Cooler Than Kung Fu

by The Colourphonics

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1.
Just mad 04:03
VI I'm going crazy it's happening again Things going wrong in this world My usual face is a calm one Just taking each day as it unfolds Pre-chorus Sometimes it's too hard to articulate, without sounding like I'm just complaining To put it all into coherent words, it's like running when it's raining Chorus Mad about the world, mad at the lies Mad about things, a smile my disguise Mad about work, mad about life Mad about things, just mad, just mad V2 Round and round and around we go Circling the drain of stable Everything ventured and nothing was gained And now I'm just mad
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Out of here 03:11
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Verse 1 How’d we get here, so far from North? Air is thickening to a fog. What I know now can’t be taught, don’t you sweat the small stuff let it go. Don’t sweat, don’t you sweat it. Don’t you sweat the small stuff. Verse 2 Can’t see two feet in front of me, rage is burning got to calm the beast. Got to do it, do it now, get up on your feet and move on down. Don’t sweat, don’t you sweat it. Don’t you sweat the small stuff. Verse 3 Don’t be influenced in your decision. With incentive change your situation. Branching out where you can find some happiness and some peace of mind. Don’t sweat, don’t you sweat it. Don’t you sweat the small stuff. Don’t you sweat the small stuff, don’t you sweat it. Don’t you sweat the small stuff, don’t you sweat it. It won’t lead you home.
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May 03:51
V1 In the month of May, she seems to fade away She wants to get out, but her outlook is grey (da da da da da, da da da da, etc.) In the month of May, she seems to fade away She wants to get out, but her outlook is grey Pre-chorus She's crying in the dust and noone knows she's there Her heart is just a mess, she wants to confess Sunrise on the ocean and she overlooks the quay She can see the good in all the bad, her fears begin to be Chorus (you know your fears will be) Just a memory, you know your fears will be (you know your fears will be) Just a memory
6.
Sit back 04:21
V1 Brothers and sister, lives are infected With famine, disaster, hatred and bloodhed Innocent people, battered and broken Who could blame them for wanting safety and the right of freedom Desperate and cornered with only one option To flee from your home and seek out asylum Run through the night with just the clothes on your back Praying to God that the dogs don't attack Chorus Sit back, sit back, sit back, sit back and stare You just sit back Sit back, sit back, sit back, sit back and stare You just sit back V2 The scale of this problem, is hard to imagine We all wanna help but don't take up action So you curse and you swear from your chair And you just, you just sit back and stare Pre-chorus You just sit and stare (it's a tragedy) You don't even care (it's a tragedy) You just sit and stare (it's a tragedy) You don't even care Chorus Sit back, sit back, sit back, sit back and stare You just sit back Sit back, sit back, sit back, sit back and stare You just sit back You just sit and stare (it's a tragedy) You don't even care (it's a tragedy) You just sit and stare (it's a tragedy) You don't even care
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Look around 02:58
Verse 1 How many times do you look in look in the mirror? See the dark lines, see the dark cracks How many times do you smooth them all out? You get lost in your little world (LOOK) Critically deep inside yourself, maturity is a forgotten art It's what you do no matter who you are. Eternal adolescence ain't a virtue A penalty, it's a penalty Chorus Look around, look around, look around, look around (take a look around, take a look around) Look around, look around, look around, look around Verse 2 Stand up on your own two feet boy, take a deep breath how tall you are There's a million shades of grey but some things are black and white See the colours of the glorious rainbow, of possibilities and of songs unsung The emptiness inside you ain't important as the cover or the colour of your brush
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Verse 1 Pounding rhythm of loneliness, you have the baton And you're twirling it, without noticing You've enraptured the strongest people, but not me Because I'm cut from a different rock Chorus Father to brother, mother to father, you are the wound without a weapon Years of concussion into raw silence, widening ever outward Father to brother, mother to father, I am the tune without a lure Automatic preconceptions, impossible to tell - for sure. Verse 2 In absentia your presence, you are not the words But the music, of the back-beat to my world Pain of defiance, one last flurry of kisses Before I submerge in the foam, at the line of the surf
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Verse 1 They just did not realise, what Charlie saw through his eyes Needlessly suffering, over who gets to drink Freedom riders, 'vagelising truth in every town Stood at the gate to the pool mob, said you can't keep us down Chorus Would they be proud? Would they be proud? Would they be proud of what we've become Would they be proud? Give them reasons to be proud of us Verse 2 We don't always recognise, hatred wraps our hearts in cloud Lowitja saw the promise of souls and her people stood up proud Go back to where you belong, said the man in the big white coat You can't destroy this dream she said my hope will grow and surpass your clout Verse 3 That terra nullius ain’t yours, said Eddie in the garden Painted in the souls of the Murrays, is a lease that never ends You didn’t ask us to enter our land You didn’t ask about the lines in the sand You didn’t ask us so we’re gonna demand You can’t deny us so we’re making our stand!
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Don't do it 03:37
Verse 1 There are people who will say Anything to get their way And if they don't choose to stay I won't beg them to There are people who will do Anything to get to you And if they won't change their views I won't beg them to Pre-chorus We can be hit by a book, can be struck by a look So I'm directing my thoughts Don't do it.....

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released October 12, 2013

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The Colourphonics Adelaide, Australia

The Colourphonics exist to entertain those who like their music live and alive. Album tracks are doomed to the past as a predilection for unplanned musical excursions means history will not be repeated here, son. In the words of the Frank Zappa, “You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.” ... more

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