nation of caners

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  We’re a nation of caners
 Excusers, explainers
 We’re wasting away every night, every day
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 Assuring ourselves we’re blameless
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 Of everything heading their way
 We use and we use, throw away and away
 Caning the plains, planing the cane
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 Jetting the snuff and snuffing the pain
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 Nothing’s enough, nothing’s enough
 A sniff on a cuff and a fag to a flame
 Downing the foam and filling the drain
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 Ravenous men, ravenous girls
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 Ravage it all until nothing remains
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  Blue yonder, the wonder
 Of getting beyond the pale
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 Slipping out of the jailed brain to a cage
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 We made in a rage of thirst
 Thirst for ease, thirst for plunder
 Thirst for junk and speed and candour
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 Thirst for splendour, a binge, a bender
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 Return to sender
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  Burn the canopy, churn the blender
 Rape the barley, bend the fender
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 Burn the embers, burn the embers
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 Cane and cane and cane dissenters
 Ream the renters, shame the campers
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 Stamp the punters through
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 Members get a tent to hurl into
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 We all know where we are going to
 We’re a nation of caners,
 And Who could blame us —
 Have you seen the state of what
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 They left for us to use?
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 Have you seen the place
 They think it’s fit for humans,
 Fit for purpose?
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 Purpose being caning, caning,
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 Purges in the virgin forest
 Urges in the depth of dreaming
 Muffled screaming coming 
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 from the cane.
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 Desperate praying underneath the rain.
 Consume it all you must
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 Or there’ll be never ending pain.
 A future filled with cesspits 
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 of the slain.
 A future that we never could
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 Explain for all the world
 The caner boys, the caner girls
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 Buried in their shame.
 Nation against nation
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 Never sickening of the game..
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  We’re a race apart of caners
 Floggers, torturers in trainers
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 Ostrich headed party planners
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 Carry-onners, carry-outers
 Flat denial earth’s, science doubters
 Flabby thinkers, shabby lovers
 Anti-social fatal drinkers
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 Shirkers, duckers, divers, wankers
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 Blissed and pissed within our blinkers.
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 A caning nation
 An acidic aberration
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 A full-force pillage through
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 The gifts of the creation.
 Heaven was our source,
 The underworld our destination
 There are worthless whirls 
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 of bank notes
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 Floating through the station.
 Can you hear the desperate praying
 Underneath the rain?
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 Can you feel the past
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 Shoving us on to the train?
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  We’re a nation of caners,
 And who can blame us?
 Mamma lets us follow
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 Anywhere our nature takes us.
 Fruit loop blitzers
 We’ve got a taste for space
 And need to fill the void with chasers,
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 Need to drink to our disgraces.
 Peak grease racers,
 We can’t stop until we die
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 Pull me back into the bar
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 Before I see the sky.
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  Baby, you’re working for the man
 You’re doing everything you can
 The weight of shit you carry round
 One day you’re gonna just derail
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 Every time I pick you up
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 It’s like I’m springing you from jail.
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  We’re a nation of caners
 Who can blame us?

 Transcribed by Americo Jimenez - June 2021