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Ready Aim Fire!

by Super Best Friends

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SUPER BEST FRIENDS - THE MONKEY IS THE MAN I was taken into a back room, I felt cold steel against my temple, Do as we say or we'll make you, So serene when you had a cause, And you gave in, yeah, just because, I'm afflicted by the wicked world, But my chair is just so comfortable, The monkey on my back, Has got me by the throat, (The monkey is the man), The monkey on my back, Has got me by the... The monkey on my back, Has got me by the throat, (The monkey is the man), The monkey on my back, Has got me by the... So serene when you're controlled by a remote control, I could stand up, Change the frickin' world, But my life is just so comfortable, Just so comfortable, just so comfortable, Just so comfortable, just so comfortable, Yeah! The monkey is the man!
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SUPER BEST FRIENDS - READY AIM FIRE! I have a list, It's written in invisible ink, Of cult idols to take out one by one, They can't be missed, Bullets must make impeccable hits on idols, So we make it and move on, Join the firing squad, Lock and load, Wait for my call now, Ready! Aim! Fire! Kill those you idolise, Reload! Ready! Aim! Fire! Please revolutionise, Kill your idols now, You must enlist, Be soldiers, Come resist your idols, So the marksmen aim at you, Join the firing squad, Lock and load, Wait for my call now, Ready! Aim! Fire! Kill those you idolise, Reload! Ready! Aim! Fire! Please revolutionise, Kill your idols now.
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SUPER BEST FRIENDS - YEAH YEAH! HEY HEY! There's a network of arseholes throughout the land, There's no telling how far their reach goes, Stuffing money in pockets, And shaking hands to maintain the status quo, No it's not evil, sinister or suspect or even conspiracy, It's only men with empty agendas, Who only care about making currency, Revolution to them is a word that describes, How money makes the world go, They're born post-war, watched the experiment die, And they like Big Macs in Moscow, They have no talent, believe that music's a product, Which can be produced en masse, Audible spam for short attention spans, That can have a product attached, Please please play this song, Give the kids a sing-along, radio, Play it play it, let it play, Yeah yeah, hey hey, radio, Get me get me on the air, Sell me out, I don't care, radio, Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, radio, Play it play it repetitive, Say it say it repetitive, Do it do it repetitive, Like a broken record, They need heavy rotation for their Idol investments, For as long as it's worth the promo, And they hate black music but whites now expect it, For the rest, there's always emo (emo!), They still run unscripted life on the TV, It's a cheap way to entertain, And if radio plugs it then it'll have content, 'Coz really it's got nothing to say, Please please play this song, Give the kids a sing-along, radio, Play it play it, let it play, Yeah yeah, hey hey, radio, Get me get me on the air, Sell me out, I don't care, radio, Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, radio, Just take over, take over like the U.S. empire, It's Western popular culture cultivated for the population, We have control of what you hear, We control you, The airwaves were yours, But we passed laws for radio silence.
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The Idiots 02:22
SUPER BEST FRIENDS - THE IDIOTS I'm depraved and deranged, All because the idiots are taking over, Sleepwalking human beings, Red-eyed, tired, mediocre and zombified, Oh, why it'd ever have to come to this? People idolising idiots, We vote them into office, give them clout, We tune in and flip the zine, And mimic them mindlessly, Like whatever duh like oh my God, Don't care if people starve if I can shop, I'd rather fit the mould than have a brain, But it turns out the biggest idiot was me, I'm sorry, The idiots are taking over, The idiots, they're taking over, But somebody somewhere is smarter than you think.
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SUPER BEST FRIENDS - RED STARS & DOLLAR SIGNS In 1917, the Russian Revolution started with a bang, The Tsars were overthrown when Lenin invoked Marx to unite common man, But revolution failed, the Russian masses starved, With a five-point attack, you'll see red, With a five-point attack, you'll see stars, With a five-point attack, In 1689, John Locke defied the English aristocracy, Frenchmen and Americans would later topple royal families, But rich men still rule the world, The aristocracy's back, With a capital S and a vertical stripe, You'll see me in my tower livin' the life, With a capital S and a vertical stripe, You'll see me in my tower livin' the life, With a five-point attack, you'll see red, With a five-point attack, you'll see stars, Red stars and dollar signs, Red stars raised the flag, And closed out the world, Dollars raised the fear, And impelled the world, The record is held, In 1989, the Iron Curtain fell, dismantled in Berlin, Socialists had lost the war as Capitalists slyly claimed the win, And without an evil empire, World domination could begin, But Wall Street crashed, yeah! Red stars and dollar signs, Red stars and dollar signs, Should be aligned, Red stars and dollar signs, Red stars and dollar signs.
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SUPER BEST FRIENDS - EVERYTHING'S FINE Welcome to New Camelot, People smile and laugh a lot, Monsters don't rule us no more, Things are better than before, Everything's fine, Everything's fine, Prince Charming, he holds the reigns, And overseas things have changed, A black man rules The States, The populous, we have a voice, We now sit back and rejoice, Our problems have gone away, But have they? But CEOs get paid too much, And TV ruined my brain, Some Asian kid, he made my shoes, And some dictator owns the news, But still we can't complain, So many smiling faces staring into space, They're high on the good times, But no one's braced for when the good guys become bad guys, When Camelot crumbles and dies, When disaster kills the laughter and we all come tumbling after, Everything's fine, Everything's fine.

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'Ready Aim Fire' is the second EP from Super Best Friends recorded in 2008 and originally released on CD in 2009. The title track and 'The Monkey Is The Man' both scored airplay on triple j.

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Bass/Vocals: Matt Roberts
Drums/Vocals: Adam Bridges
Vocals/Guitar/Synth: Johnny Barrington

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Trumpet: Rob Lee (Los Capitanes)
Vocals: Chris Legge (Dining At The White & The Red Vest)

KID CHOIR
Eve Castrisios
Sofia Castrisios
Alex Castrisios
Harry Barrington

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released April 24, 2009

Recorded, produced and mixed by Chris Legge in Canberra.
Mastered by Don Bartley at Benchmark Mastering, Sydney.

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Super Best Friends Canberra, Australia

Matt Roberts
Adam Bridges
Johnny Barrington

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