The ROOT! Compendium - Lyrics

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Get Up Yourself

Get up, get up yourself
Get up, get up yourself
You'll never look back if you're all front
To get anywhere you gotta be a c-c-c-confident person

Get up, get up yourself
Get up, get up yourself
If you want a self help remedy,
Then repeat after me - one, two, three

You say: I love myself
I love myself
Again, I love myself

You're the cat's whiskers, you're the kitchen sink
You've got to positive think 'til your shit don't stink
Make philanthropy your cunsultancy
For a six figure fee by talking "Me, me, me"

Get up, get up yourself
Get up, get up yourself
Longevity is so last year,
No talent, no limit, no brains, no fear

I love myself, I said
I love myself, ah well
I love myself, ah yeah

Three cheers for the juice bar lady,
Mad props to Mr. Microsoft^[1]
Give it up for the guys from Google^[2]
Televise the magnate's funeral
Three cheers for Mr. Facebook^[3]
For giving a wall^[4] to the movie star,
Make a spokesman, father of the year
Pop star here's your ARIA^[5]

Money coming out your ears ain't reward enough
Not having the working man's fears must be pretty tough
With so many on the breadline, it's lonely at the top
Spare a thought for those who are better off

It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
Solipsism
Solipsism
Solipsism
It's not soul, it's solipsism
Solipsism

Look it up.^[6]

Information

1) Debuted live at The East Brunswick Club, March 20, 2008.
2) Officially released on the Get Up Yourself single, August 23, 2008.
3) Thanks to Hairy Cat for assistance with these lyrics.

Notes

1) Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to found Microsoft and became the world's richest man (third richest at the time of this recording).
2) Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded search engine Google as students in 1997 and are now worth several million dollars each.
3) Mark Zuckerberg founded social networking site Facebook in 2004. He became (arguably) the world's youngest billionaire.
4) One of the features of Facebook is each user has a "wall" which their friends can write on.
5) The self-titled award given out by the Australian Recording Industry of Australia.
6) Solipsism.