Victims of TISM Support Group

TISM Boat Hire Offer

Confronting society can begin to tire
Just come on down to TISM Boat Hire
You wanna do a line (1), no one can reproach you,
Casting out the side of a little two-stroker

Vote for boat, vote for boat
Vote for... hire a boat!

Rock stars tend to suicide
They don't seem so romantic when you're worried bout tide
Bon Scott would be alive this week (2)
If he just went fishing from Mordialloc Creek (3)

If you're into the (grog?), be a smart thinker
Give it all up for hook, line and sinker
Vote with your feet, rock's had it's day
Your new electorate is out on the bay

I want to make you hire
Make you hire!

Don't wanna be the bad boys of rock
Don't want my morality to cause anyone shock
Just want a leitmotif that can float
Don't want Guns & Roses (4), I want a boat

Vote for boat, vote for boat
Vote for...

What have we caught, rock jerrymander
Do it while I'm trawling for salamander
Axe in your disco, murder a rapper
Give it all up, go catch some schnapper

Annotations

1. 'Do a line' refers to snorting a 'line' of coke, speed, etc.
2. Bon Scott was the original lead singer in the band AC/DC. He died by choking on his own vomit after a drinking binge. Bon Scott's death is also mentioned in River Phoenix.
3. Mordialloc Creek is located in Melbourne's southern suburbs, and is the site of a large boat hire business. Mordialloc is also mentioned in Mordialloc Road Duplicator.
4. There are several Guns 'n' Roses references in other TISM lyrics. See notes to Lose Your Delusion I and II, and the notes for Australia the Lucky C*nt.