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Oddernity

by The Bon Scotts

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I have come Via the war Of neon lights and bankrupted malls Where the young simulate youth Singing,'soon we shall we walk on all fours' All our friends will become enemies in the end And soon we will have to choose a side With the sweet smell of doom in our hair the kids are coming with their asinine flair Satellite Sat-a-love In my hand Felt a lot but the words stuck Feel my sway ‘When will Paul be back as superman’ All our friends will become enemies in the end and soon we will have to choose a side With the sympathy of a dull boys stare California is coming with its asinine flair The alien spoke to me like a Scandinavian Told me that was you singing your heart on the radio "New money will always remarry to keep up the fantasy" They own the radio I kept accountants with accounts And receipts for everything so now we know
2.
We Like War 02:52
In sneakers and jeans we’re dressed for combat California has poets as well as producers and pricks In syrupy morning sips the fanatic wash up Oh, whatever you said you still look like Edie Sedgwick Let the telco spread its copper wings We’ll electrify, fa la la la la lie On Mondays I take the bins out with mine Oh, fa la la la la la I’m still too young to die I adore the U in colour Shops the maudlin mother I never lived before Seattle But looking good is half the battle The bored star strives and thrives Strikes and then retires She’s pretty and repetitive Knows how appropriate appropriation is Withdraws and reforms Creates another media storm Says the environment is warming Celebrities are starving My attention doesn’t span From my thumb to my wrist Ban funding to the arts No more funding to the arts I never imagined she was a sensitive wee girl And I’ll send her my love I’ll send her my love And fa la la… You want my daughter You can’t afford her Your as crooked as British teeth And the American Rich She needs someone Who can bring home the soy bacon Can you do that On the money that your making And I like war if it’s a good one It’s best to fall in love with no one You’ll be kicking teeth with belief before long Back to where you started but you won’t belong You think there is kindness in the world you are wrong You think you can make it if you try and you won’t fall We’ll we like war when war is beautiful Yeah, we like war when wars beautiful
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It was about this time last year Fell for the girl with the oversized ear She said, with you I feel so lovely So suburban So complementary So old and ordinary It was about the time you said goodbye I felt the swelling of a tear within my eye I said "Only a fool would leave me lonely" So tired and hungry So old and ordinary I’d said I want to make love to you But you think it sounds so American And everything American sounds cheap. I don’t want to sound cheap But we still sing to Dylan And we still sing to Dalton We still sing to Sam Beam And we still sing to Springsteen Let’s never mention All those things that were never meant to happen I miss the sound of my name Whispered in passion All the names only you have for a lover You say sing Dylan While you slave but I just get bored Guess I shouldn’t expect anymore Anymore
4.
She feels eclectic Days living is music But the songs of our youth will all be jingles in time I got the good sense To kiss freedom But we have caused such a fuss How very un-Scandinavian of us I have tried almost every rock in this town And you are by far the prettiest going round Things get sacrificed like conclusions and compromise We talk such nonsense But not by choice All my friends are animals in lust and seer But I did see the world It is spinning for us I am bathing with the creatures Of the inner city beaches A complicated petty set of incoherent procedures Things get messy Like voting in democracy We talk of choice but it is nonsense They played our song on television commercial I felt indescribable Almost beautiful With the corporate cola colours On the corner store where The motherless child screams The pictures of the wars While the presidents stall And the fine minded politicians scream The church folk Joke on Sunday parade For their fatherless worlds in ruins
5.
Hells bells and chattels I’m going to kill that morning bird Its one to many songs shes sung But I won’t tell you when the work is done And my little love I’m a little out of work The old in and out Scream until we’re in again Wait for the pretty words For I am just a lonely boy And lie low my love Wake up and then well go Lets get wet and forget Down where the water flows One too many feuds we won But never is the good work done And my little love You are a little flirt The old in and out Scream for your attention And I will bath in you On the sunny afternoon And this is where billy drowned in the atmosphere But I will never let you go For me and you We always gonna be a little blue We always gonna be a little blue
6.
Our nature is a pretty anathema Oh, we are in for nasty nasty weather Just a silly thing to fickle over Oh dear, Oh dear how near The nasty nasty weather is here This here is god’s old country Dry as the hell of poverty Just a funny thing to be so fussy Oh dear, Oh dear how near The nasty nasty weather is here I want to the sky fall in And bring All the silver bottomed jets Tumbling to the dry dead earth I want these oceans to crash And wash All our neon lit cities Beneath the cover Of the oil spilled sodden Don’t feel down trodden you’ll soon be forgotten You’ll just disappear quietly Into the finality of goodbye Beacuse Technology and business suits Ain’t going to save us baby Your precious little white coats Ain’t going to save us baby Your green clean spinning machine Ain’t going to save us baby It is just the glitter of public swagger And politician poetry Old songs are the best songs
7.
In apologies our words will fray When we had found the one thing we share Sometimes I know I will never change And sometimes that just seems okay Had quite the crush on a beautiful friend of mine I see her again, at least once in a while But you’ve become more than a good friend And good people ruin everything
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There is a time and then there is a place And a town filled with crazy god lovers While the quiet rest in this quietness The unjust paint souvenirs from the battlefields Changing hands is the money of retired Acute like all good pushers and shovers For the meek and the alas alone There is a kindness in everything unknown There is a wreck resting on every ocean floor And a winner in all of these long wars Just as every sad boy Loves the sound of skin Breaking up and splitting Dear fathers we should hide our razors Don’t sing sad sad songs If you are not such a sad sad fellow Don’t go breaking all the rules iI you are weak or yellow Don’t go kissing all the girls If you don’t want to make them proud Don’t go messing up your life With the dreams you had as a lad Don’t go laughing at funerals They are a time set aside for those to mourn Don’t make fun of the frail and hungry It is not their fault they are born Don’t drive home if you have had too much to drink This is a time to say what is on your mind Don’t regret the experiences you have had They have molded you over time Don’t throw plates and glasses or insults As our illusions will easily shatter Don’t cry wolf too many times people will not care when it really matters DPon’t get angry at the little things Remain lethargic and you will get through Don’t have children they only get depressed And hate everything you do.
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I wrote a love song, for a riot We're going to pick you out Going to start a fight I miss you like a fright Like I might just Try and let you down I sang a love song for a fight I'm going to pick you out Of common sense with little lies And when my skins inside I’ll confide “my love will only let you down" Out and into the cold This is some kind of friend for the end For the end of this silly punter world lets make love and war, tonight Yeah I’m Going to get you back Going to start a fight I miss you like a fright I am going to make you come alive In this dark end of the world Certain to confess love Where the cold liver rips to bleed Let em all be lonely There is chaos in the market place Lets lasso the son and lets whimper again
10.
Sadness always finds me In the cold hum of catastrophe You can see in everything that little bit of longing In thought I passed of as a memory There is a sombre refrain of a melody That you are kindly wanting for you and no one else And in that warmth of modesty Is a folly that seems to find me With tiny hints of a promise, That you would not want to miss In thought I passed of as a memory There is a sombre refrain of a melody That you are kindly wanting for you and no one else To have you here to curl your hair To bend your hips In the way that makes me want to stop everything else To have you here with lovers stare To curl your lips In the way that makes me want to stop everything else Then to have my face against the back Of your thin haired And tired neck As you sleep and sweat silently beside me Breathing in and out and in and out and in and out In and out Till I am asleep amid you. You can’t just call this oddernity Then move on so casually Move on from me so faultlessly So tepid and tremendously After all this is oddernity And I acted so thoughtlessly But nothing is beyond me I’m often so designed and dreary But this is the oddernity We have planned so carefully We have planned so immaculately Without cracks and sympathy Many times you said quietly I know you'll find your way back to me I'll find my way back to you

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The Bon Scotts are not an AC/DC cover band.

Melbourne ensembles debut release “Oddernity,” is an instrumentally charismatic blend of found sounds, home-made instruments and traditional folk.

The infectious toe-tapping rhythms and unique instrumentation are led by Zimmerman’s cheeky and observant song writing, filled with an often brilliant, if not quirky passion for word play.

The Bon Scotts profound delicacy and playful cynicism certainly ascribes to “what it means to be young and loads of fun” – Neon Hearts.

‘Crackling imagery...youthful, unfiltered charm’ – Mess & Noise

‘The Bon Scotts are sensational ‘- whiteboydancefloor

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released September 20, 2010

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The Bon Scotts Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne septet The Bon Scotts are firmly at the vanguard of the folk revival, absorbing traditional folk method and elegantly bastardising it with stories and unceremonious sounds.

The Bon Scotts are one of Melbourne’s hardest working bands.
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