We're a nation of caners Excusers, explainers We're wasting away every night, every day Assuring ourselves we're blameless Of everything heading their way We use and we use, throw away and away Caning the plains, planing the cane Jetting the snuff and snuffing the pain Nothing's enough, nothing's enough A sniff on a cuff and a fag to a flame Downing the foam and filling the drain Ravenous men, ravenous girls Ravage it all until nothing remains Blue yonder, the wonder Of getting behind the pale Slipping out of the jailed brain to a cage We made in a rage of thirst Thirst for ease, thirst for plunder Thirst for junk and speed and candour Thirst for splendour, a binge, a bender Return to sender Burn the canopy churn the blender Rape the barley, bend the fender Burn the embers, burn the embers Cane and cane and cane dissenters Ream the renters, shame the campers Stamp the punters through Members get a tent to hurl into We all know where we're going to We're a nation of caners Who could blame us Have you seen the state of what They left for us to use? Have you seen the place They think is fit for humans, fit for purpose? Purpose being caning, caning Purges in the virgin forest Urges in the depth of dreaming Muffled screaming coming from the cane Desperate praying underneath the rain Consume it all you must Or there'll be never ending pain A future filled with cesspits of the slain A future that we never could Explain for all the world The caner boys, the caner girls Buried in their shame Nation against nation Never sickening of the game We're a race apart of caners Floggers, torturers in trainers Ostrich headed party planners Carry-onners, carry-outers Flat denial earthers, science doubters Flabby thinkers, shabby lovers Anti-social fatal drinkers Shirkers, duckers, divers, wankers Blissed and pissed within our blinkers A caning nation An acidic aberration A full-force pillage through The gifts of the creation Heaven was our source The underworld our destination There are worthless whirls of bank notes Floating through the station Can you hear the desperate praying Underneath the rain? Can you feel the past Shoving us on to the train? We're a nation of caners And who can blame us? Mamma lets us follow Anywhere our nature takes us Fruit loop blitzers We've got a taste for space And need to fill the void with chasers Need to drink to our disgraces Peak grease racers We can't stop until we die Pull me back into the bar Before I see the sky Baby, you're working for the man You're doing everything you can The weight of shit you carry round One day you're gonna just derail Every time I pick you up It's like I'm springing you from jail We're a nation of caners (Who can blame us?) A nation of caners (Who can blame us?) We're a nation of caners (Who can blame us?) A nation of caners (who can blame us?) Who can blame us? (Who can blame us?) Who can blame us? (Who can blame us?) Who can blame us? (Who can blame us?) Who can blame us? (Who can blame us?) ♪ Can you hear the desperate praying Underneath the rain? Can you feel the past Shoving us on to the train? Who can blame us? Who can blame us? Who? Who can blame us? Who?