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Shirk Life EP

by Good Boy

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We don’t all see from eye to eye But your opinion doesn’t matter Go and sign on the dotted line While your pockets get fatter Got dreams of cans behind a car Who’s in it doesn’t make a difference We're wasting time and money, man Lets get right down to business New shoes Fresh shirt And Pressed tie Holding hands 1 love between 2 guys Equal and indiscrete Don’t care much for tradition or sanctity We don’t all see from eye to eye But your opinion doesn’t matter Go and sign on the dotted line While your pockets get fatter For what should not be Up for debate Answers obvious Fists get clenched and Voices raised New shoes Fresh shirt And pressed tie Holding hands 1 love between 2 guys Equal and indiscrete Don’t care much for tradition or sanctity
2.
Albert and I Struggled up The highest hill In Bundaberg Around the first bend We almost met our end By going over the edge Before we reached the top Sea on one side Town on the other Kanaka walls Built the predjudice divide But nothing No nothing has change You said nothing would stay the same That it would change from day to day x2 Albert and I We stumbled to The burnett port But there wasnt a ship And we thought To ourselves What a fucking gip Albert and I We struggled up The highest hill In rum city Hill on one side Town on the other Kanaka walls Built the predjudiced divide But nothing No nothing has changed You said nothing would stay the same That it would change from day to day x2
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It’s the new religion For the pragmatic age Promotion is enlightenment Paradise your weekly wage It’s the new edition What’s the value of your will Tell me what to think man and give me time to kill Not a bloody chance None to buckley is all you'll get my friend
4.
Charmed and woo'd without Questioning the rhetoric As dangerous as it is What do you fear Personal Attacks Geriatric spats Pauline you're on fire Direct your blame You think you're having fun But you're wasting time Fishing with a shotgun Tell yourself you're having fun But you're wasting time Fishing with a shotgun First you're born then you grow then you learn to speak in spite of what you know Curiousity & knowledge Is all you need Charmed and woo'd without Questioning the rhetoric As dangerous as it is What do you fear You think you're having fun But you're wasting time Fishing with a shotgun Tell yourself you're having fun But you're wasting time Fishing with a shotgun Yeah you think you're having fun but you're wasting time fishing with a shotgun
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Underneath and beside me These prols wasting and abiding Promises you could not handle Indecency is fundamental Goddamn all these idiots I don't care what they say You cannot kill then kindness A smile wont cause in them change Ahhhh hell in a handbasket Think I may have lost the knack I feel like pure shit I think I might want her back Underneath and beside me These prols wasting and abiding Promises you could not handle Indecency is fundamental Goddamn all these idiots I don't care what they say You cannot kill then kindness A smile wont cause in them change Ahhhh hell in a handbasket Think I may have lost the knack I feel like pure shit I think I might want her back  
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Valley of Fortitude I'll contribute all Of my precious time Drag my feet down feet Down Brunswick Street Put all my energy Into feeling alright Majic Country Feed me Majic Country Dousing Majic country Feel me Majic country Founding When we met you said you know me well I dont think you know anything Valley of fortitude I will contribute But i don't owe you anything Majic Country Feed me Majic Country Dousing Majic country Feel me Majic country Founding

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Until recently, Good Boy never thought of themselves as a political band but sometimes the times just force your hand. The EP’s first track ‘A Waste Of 122 Million Dollars (Taxpayer Funded)’ spits a self-explanatory message about the absurd and insulting marriage equality plebiscite. Similarly, ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’ and ‘Hell in a Handbasket’ seethe with frustration about the seeming non-choice between neo-liberal, right-wing and conservative politicians.

Stand-out track ‘1972 VW Superbug’ is a nostalgic sprawler which explores regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Never has “rum-city” been sung about with such romance and pathos. Meanwhile, the final track, ‘Majic Country’ is an ode to their new home of Fortitude Valley.

Shirk Life is a collection of songs that show a young band finding and questioning their place in the world. Thought-provoking and exhilarating.

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released November 10, 2017

Recorded by Cameron Smith from Incremental Records in Brisbane and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young (except Fishing With a Shotgun recorded by Tim Fitz in Sydney). Artwork by Alice Rezende.

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