The ROOT! Compendium - Lyrics

All lyrics © ROOT!

Back To Mine

Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine
At clock off time I'm going back to mine

Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine

At clock off time, where you gonna find me? Going back to mine
Let me tell you why I'm going back to mine:
Because thats my comfort zone.
Don't you love that phrase?
"I'm going to push you around and if you complain, thats just you not wanting to get out of your comfort zone."
From the environments inexorable revenge to the multiplying cells in your body
Everything in this technicolour universe is already conspiring to take you out of your comfort zone.
So I'm making it my life's work to spend as much time as possible back in it.
And the next time someone tries that phrase on you, well you know maybe you could take them out of theirs?

Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to a time when "comfortable" was not a crime.
Whatever may be your cup of tea, its fine by me.
Like watching re-runs of MacGyver^[1] underneath your favourite rug,
Playing with your collection of commemorative mugs,
Tinkering out in your shed with that car that never runs,
Or when your partner leaves you, running home to mum
Wearing uggboots round the house,
Playing Bon Jovi^[2] really loud,
Reading books that arent allowed
By the "Oh, its so hard to find good coffee" crowd

Back to mine, back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
I'm going, going, going, gone!

Ten kinds of birds singing in the trees.
Morning cup of tea.
Favourite pair of jeans.
And I'm going back to mine.

Got this old trannie^[3] blaring out footy.
Doing household stuff kinda leisurely.
And I'm going back to mine.

Kids in their doonas tucked up nice.
Log fire's warm and the beers on ice.
And im going back to mine.

Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going... back to mine
Back to mine, back to mine, I'm going back to mine

Information

1) Premiered at The Spanish Club on June 17, 2007.
2) Included in Introducing ROOT!
3) Other verses which extended the "Get them out of theirs" lyric included:

So the next time someone says to you, get out of your comfort zone,
You have my permission to take the nearest blunt instrument
And say to them, "I'm not comfortable with what I'm about to do"
And take them out of theirs.

Notes

1) MacGyver was a television series which ran through the late 1980's into the early 1990's. It starred Richard Dean Anderson as the ever-resourceful title character who became known for solving huge and complex problems with incredibly mundane objects. For example, in the pilot episode, he diffused a nuclear warhead at the last moment by using a paperclip to short circuit the device. Incidentially the lyric booklet for "Root Supposed He Was Out Of The Question" incorrectly gives the title as "MaGyver".
2) Bon Jovi are a rock band from New Jersey whose music shys away from hard rock into a more melodic, tuneful arena rock style.
3) Transistor radio.