Let me be grumpy

I don’t mean any harm when I complain

even though I say it again and again

just want to release a bit of extra steam

I’m much much nicer than I may seem

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Oh, let me be grumpy in my old age

let me be grumpy in my old age

Not young any more, not got long to go

let me be grumpy till the day I die

I tolerated foolishness all my life

listened to horror tales of war and strife

took it on the chin, turned the other cheek

always cheered for the downtrodden meek

I may give the image of angry discontent

but please believe me that’s not what I meant

my opinion is mine and if you disagree

you’re more than welcome to be grumpy back to me

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I reserve the right to rant and rave

won’t have a chance when I’m in my grave

I won’t shut up just to try to be polite

I’ll moan and groan from morning till night

(Chorus)

Maxi Minimal

Maxi Minimal she’s never subliminal

You know when she’s there, people like that are rare

She bears the scars of living the things that aren’t forgiving

You can’t dislike her, there’s nobody like her

She doesn’t need a name, no sense of identity

Oh, what a shame, she’s not part of society

Her proportions not proper, her looks not an eye popper

No need of fashion for dynamite and passion

Maxi Minimal, you’re unsinkable, oh yeah, always there

Maxi Minimal, without you is unthinkable, oh yeah, extraordinaire

She looks like a criminal, and not very sensible

But don’t believe your eyes, she’s more than one surprise

Never doing what she’s told, she didn’t come from any mould

A true outsider, even stars don’t guide her

They say she’s still around, some say in the underground

Whatever that means, they don’t have to spill the beans

And if you see her, she’ll burn and disappear

Dark matter light, always shining bright

Maxi Minimal, you’re unsinkable, oh yeah, always there

Maxi Minimal, without you is unthinkable, oh yeah, extraordinaire

Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable, Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable

Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable, Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable

Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable, Maxi Minimal, so unbelievable

Radiation Rap

Down in Hazy Checkpoint people still demonstrating, no time for waiting

Still the minority, most don’t care, don’t know what’s priority

Don’t that air and water scare you, fire comes later

You’ll see it all turn blue, when you hide in that crater

Look back to the past, it wasn’t so long ago,

And if it ain’t the last, some will say I told you so

Misinformation, cover up across the nation

Caught in the Prometheus trap, as we dance to the radiation rap

That blade of grass is crying, the trees are sighing and dying

What they’ve created is manipulated,

Sensitivity melting down quicker than reactors, bring on the tractors

And helicopters pouring water, lock up your sons and daughters

Kenji Miyazawa, Rachel Carson, raging in their graves

About a mentality still emerging from the caves

Time to take a stand, save our one and only land

Before we’re wiped off the map, as we dance to the radiation rap

Ten-year plans hit for six, twenty-year-old plants, okay, they’re in the sticks

Away from the city, not on their genkan, but they’ll give you their pity,

Strontium 90, absorb it nightly, you won’t get off lightly, half-life very likely

Keep counting those becquerels, don’t count on anything else

Like the nuclear village, we all know where it’s been

Turn this item round and you’ll see what I mean

They’ll tell you they’re pragmatic, while they’re fixed on automatic

When we’re on the last lap, who’s gonna take the radiation rap?