MEGA CITY FOUR lyrics of the week

This is the first in a weekly series of quality lyrics from here, there and everywhere.

This week's lyrics are particularly apt, given the political shenanigans we're experiencing in Australia currently. The words are from a song called 'Finish' by a long-forgotten 1990s indie band, Mega City Four. Their back catalogue is well worth exploring, especially the excellent Sebastapol Road album...

Don't it make you sick
when they say trust me I'm your friend?
You know there must be some election
coming round again
And what about when someone calls
you haven't seen in years?
You know they're after something
when they break down in tears.

Everybody's after something these days
they're all on the take
don't it make you mad?
Everybody's onward and everybody's upward
stealing from my pocket
and stepping on my head.

You might say I'm bitter
well I guess that you'd be right
if you'd been through what I have
maybe then you'd realise
I was born with nothing
and now I've even less
the only things I'll leave behind
are pain and bitterness.


And the only pleasure that I get
is knowing it.