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Totally saying "mate".

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theplatypus wrote:Australians are hilariously deluded on this topic
i’m not. i’m normal. and i don’t know anyone who thinks it’s ‘mate’. we are a little more advanced down here in tasmania despite our dodgy gene pool.
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it’s literally in the script that it’s ‘mine’ and doesn’t even sound like ‘mate’. there is no debate. grow up.
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"I got bugs...."
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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I admit it, what's to say
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Lives opened and trashed...
Look ma, watch me crash...
No time to question...
why'd nothing last..
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Don't you want people to love you?
My spanking, that's the only thing I want so much...
Spanking, that's the only thing I want so much...
That's the only thing I want so much...
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Have a drink they're buying,
Bottom of bottle of denial,
Big guy, big eye, watching me,
Have to wonder what it sees,
Progress laced with ramifications,
Freedom's big plunge
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Ms Harmless wrote:Have a drink they're buying,
Bottom of bottle of denial,
Big guy, big eye, watching me,
Have to wonder what it sees,
Progress laced with ramifications,
Freedom's big plunge
I always thought it was “freedom’s big PUNCH” lol
“Plunge” is better. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Matters wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:Have a drink they're buying,
Bottom of bottle of denial,
Big guy, big eye, watching me,
Have to wonder what it sees,
Progress laced with ramifications,
Freedom's big plunge
I always thought it was “freedom’s big PUNCH” lol
“Plunge” is better. Thanks for clearing that up.
I’ve never looked at the lyrics before. Always thought he was saying “bottoms up, bottoms up”
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EJ wrote:Lives opened and trashed...
Look ma, watch me crash...
No time to question...
why'd nothing last..
Ha, for the last 25 years I've heard "wind up in last."
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Kevin Davis wrote:
EJ wrote:Lives opened and trashed...
Look ma, watch me crash...
No time to question...
why'd nothing last..
Ha, for the last 25 years I've heard "wind up in last."
"why nothing lasts" for me
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vacate is the word, vengeance has no place so near to her
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“Once divided nothing left to subtract
Some words when spoken can't be taken back”

Fairly simple but works so well to set up the rest of the song.

Just about every song from Vitalogy feels like an acceptable answer in this thread.
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Matters wrote:“Once divided nothing left to subtract
Some words when spoken can't be taken back”

Fairly simple but works so well to set up the rest of the song.

Just about every song from Vitalogy feels like an acceptable answer in this thread.
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My wife and I pretty much live by this:

Some words when spoken can't be taken back
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Matters wrote:“Once divided nothing left to subtract
Some words when spoken can't be taken back”

Fairly simple but works so well to set up the rest of the song.

Just about every song from Vitalogy feels like an acceptable answer in this thread.
yep
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restless soul, enjoy your youth is an excellent opening lyric, though I'm not a fan of the line that follows.

Jeremy's opening lyrics are quite evocative
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Awooh
Aye davanita
Awooh
Awooha
Jahooh
Jahooh
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Aye davanita
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You fool! Dude, what do you think you're doing?!
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