Victims of TISM Support Group

The History Of Western Civilisation

You can build an abattoir on Anzac Cove (1)
You can invade Poland (2), scream death to the foe
You can cut the ozone layer down by thirds
Just don't come from the Western suburbs (3)

You go to the disco, the bouncer's a beast
'You go on in', he says to the boys from the East
'You gotta stay outside with the common herd'
Just don't come from a Western suburb

Just don't come from the Western suburbs

Support the Olympics? What a load of merde (4)
Marry the ugly ug-booted (5) birds
You're the only one who gets what you deserve
Just don't come from a Western suburb

Just don't come from the Western suburbs
Way out West, way out West

You can get your education down at the tech (6)
You can never have heard of the proleteriat
Never been there, of course, it's what I've heard
I never came from a Western suburb!

Annotations

1. Anzac Cove is where the troops landed at Gallipoli in World War 1.
2. Germany's invasion of Poland triggered World War 2.
3. Melbourne's western suburbs are demographically working class.
4. Merde is French for shit.
5. Ug boots are lambskin boots--generally the footwear choice of the Australian working class (unless they're wearing mocassins).
6. The Victorian state secondary education system was divided into technical/vocational (tech) and more academically-oriented (high) schools.