VICTIMS OF TISM SUPPORT GROUP
LOGO ANNOTATIONS SONG INDEX RETURN HOME
We Are The Champignons (1)

Been crucified by all the scribes
You can't see our backs for all the knives
The critics have done all they could
Fair enough - we're just no good

We've tried our best, no excuse
You've come to realise it's just no use
It's about time everybody understood
One simple fact - we're just no good!

This latest effort, it's pretty drab
Try Died Pretty (2) they're always fab
Turn off the radio, I know I would
Let's just face it - we're no good

It's about time that a rock band spoke
Admitted that they were a joke
We'll be the first in the neighbourhood
To say without a doubt we're no good!

No good, good, good
We'll be the first in the neighbourhood
No good, good, good

Possibly then, we could get Sting (3)
Admitting to his pissant thing
When Dunsinane gets to Birnam Wood (4)
That's when he'll say 'I'm no good'

Then Bono (5), take the stand
This time against your band
Morality's your daily food
Why don't you preach 'I'm no good'?

No good, no good good good
Morality's your daily food
No good good good

Just before we run out of time,
That last verse contained an eye rhyme (6)
And I feel that I should
Point at that it wasn't good

The singer mucked up the song
The guitarist got it wrong
The bassist, in all likelihood
Is like the drummer, they're both no good

You wouldn't be talking to me except I'm in TISM
I'm mediocre
I got moss on my teeth
I'm a boring person
I'm not witty, I'm nothing
And you're still talking to me
Don't tell me you wouldn't talk to me
I'm not worth talking to

Annotations

1. An allusion to Queen's 'We are the Champions'.
2. Died Pretty are a Sydney band.
3. Sting fronted the band Police and has since had a successful solo career. He is also mentioned in Let's Form a Company and Whinge Rock.
4. A reference to Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. However, Macbeth's downfall occurs when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill (so TISM have this the wrong way around).
5. Bono fronts Irish band U2. He is also mentioned in Let's Form A Company.
6. An eye rhyme occurs where the spelling matches, but the pronunciation doesn't, e.g. food/good. There is also an eye rhyme (spazo/tazo) for which an apology is given in My Brilliant Huntington's Chorea.