Ghost in the Shell - Thundamentals, Steve Clisby

So here’s a little story 'bout Milly and Matt

Milly always told Matt, you stink and you’re fat

And why is your shirt all stained, you one dumb pig

You got a hole in your socks, and where’s your pumped up kicks?

Matt had come to live on housing estates

His mum was a nurse, worked late at hourly rates

Daddy was long gone, it was a lonely affair

He watched Home & Away to feel at home in his head

'Cause at home there was nobody there

And at school, he was just a taboo, he was just that fat dude

So nobody cared, addicted to that fast food

Could even see the arches from the classroom

He’d eat it in a heartbeat, every afternoon at half 3

Catch him watching cartoons, Maccas within arms reach

He’s whistle every jingle in the ad breaks

Those fuckers had him gagging on the catchphrase

But one day, when Matty’s mother had a minute

She said «some day, you ain’t always gonna have my hand to deal with»

Matt sat and listened, she had him thinking

She’s on in on what the deal is

She told him how she feels, we are indifferent

Sees it on the media and reads it on the internet

Hears it on the radio, sex is selling product

Symptom of oppression, where the 1% get more than just the off cuts

And ignorance is bliss, why won’t it let me hit that?

I’ve been trying to get my fix, it’s just an empty mismatch

You can try to act the big man, fingers at the bad guy

You can open up your big mouth, close down your damn mind

I ain’t got time to hold your hand

You know I know I’m gone

And I’m not here to make your mind up

You know I know I won’t

You’re more than just a ghost in a shell

A ghost in a shell

Does it get easier?

Yes, it gets easier.

The more you know who you are and what you want the less,

you let things upset you

So here’s a little story 'bout Milly and Matt

Milly always told Matt, you stink and you’re fat

Matty struggled with confidence, kids thought he was chubby

Milly was the opposite, boys called her a honey

Born in the money, Milly’s fam settled in Palm Beach

Some would say Summer Bay, has a shelter from harms reach

And a north mansion was heritage listed

Oak-floor boards, cabinets and sheridan in the linen

Extravagant living, you could tell that wealth was a given

From that high held prop in the kitchen

Butlers up in the ovens, after he’s done the dishes

He buttering up the muffins, father’s up in the spinach

Yeah daddy was minted, hit him with the amount

Cashing the cow, advertising exec'

Maccas was his biggest account

About twenty years back he scored his first billboard

Before long he made a mill', then a couple mill' more

But if only daddy actually cared

She’d wake up, and cake up with make up and glamorous hair

Dreaming of a face up on that billboard

Or half naked on the front page of Vanity Fair

Her mother had lips full of botox

Which influenced Mill to get work done

So would she get implants or nose job

She’d love both, but couldn’t yet decide on the first one

September 4th fell on a Thursday

Just an ordinary day, in a day of her life

But it was Milly’s twenty first Birthday

The day she organised to go under the knife

Not content with the skin that she lived in

Her Pursuit of happiness is a curse

Before the blade made its incision

Milly grabbed the hand and Matty’s mother who happened to be the nurse

I ain’t got time to hold your hand

You know I know I’m gone

And I’m not here to make your mind up

You know I know I won’t

You’re more than just a ghost in a shell

A ghost in a shell