The ROOT! Compendium - Lyrics

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Pauline Hanson Says There's Christian Muslims Too

There ain't no global warming^[1]
Don't get your undies in a knot!
There's only climate change,^[2]
In Melbourne we get that a lot.^[3]

And Governments rule for the majority
There's no such thing as expediency^[4]
Keeping peace is why the troops were sent^[5]
George Bush was an elected President^[6]

Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too^[7]
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too

There's no workplace exploitation,^[8]
You're just out of your comfort zone
There's no "me" in team^[9] -
If you fail you're not on your own!

It's not about what you can do for me
I'm just "leveraging synergies"^[10]
If you don't like it, you'll be "re-aligned"
That's not being fired, it doesn't even rhyme!

Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too

It's all about the music, not success or awards.
Come join my profit making scheme,
We can all share the rewards,
You can acheive if you just beleive,
And all you need is love.^[11]

Teenage girls don't dress like hookers,
They're just finding their voice.
Lets all head on down to maccas,
Make a healthy choice!^[12]

You can be anything that you want to be;
A rock band with longevity,
Lead a religion if you're female,
Be in the lucky country if your skin ain't pale,
Educated if you got no money,
Celebrity-rated if you're ugly.

Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too

Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
Pauline Hanson says there's Christian Muslims, too
All together now.

Information

1) Debuted on June 17, 2007 at The Spanish Club
2) Included in Introducing ROOT!
3) In their first announcement, ROOT! mis-spelled the title of the song as "Pauline Hansen".

Notes

1) Global warming is the term used to describe the increase in global temperature over recent decades due to human involvement.
2) Climate change is similar to global warming, though it deals with a longer time frame and has a wider scope including varied environmental shifts.
3) This references Melbourne's typically unpredictable weather which is frequently known to fluctuate wildly over the course of a single day - even changing completely (bitter cold to blazing heat) within hours.
4) Expediency is the practice of serving ones self (specifically, here, in reference to a politician doing so at expense of the people).
5) A reference to the on-going Iraq war, which many have questioned America's (and by extention, Australia's) motivation to be involved in.
6) The outcome of the United States 2000 Presidential election was very controversial with some still believing that Al Gore would have won if the contested state of Florida had a complete re-count. No full re-count was done, instead other methods were employed and the winner of the election was announced as George W. Bush.
7) Pauline Hanson is an australian politician whose One Nation party came under fire due to allegations of racism. She eventually left the party and when her auto-biography was released in 2007, Hanson claimed that she was weary of allowing all Muslims into Australia, but would allow the "Christian Muslims - there is no problems about that".
8) Brought in by the Australian Government in 2005, the "Workchoices" was heavilly criticised for being completely unfair to workers.
9) This is essentially a backwards way of looking at the phrase "There is no I in Team" meaning that the individual must work with the teams progession in mind. However, in this context it also works in reverse, allowing the individual to fall back on the team in the event of failure.
10) Leveraging synergies is a "buzz word" which means, in essence, to use portions of a similar project or task in another to reduce the amount of work needed on the newer task.
11) A reference to The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love".
12) McDonalds (or Maccas) at the time this song was written was focusing on its "healthy choice" range of products.