HO HUM DE DUM

That guy’s got a Porsche

Ho hum de dum

A girl stood you up

Ho hum de dum

Your neighbour cracked a rib

Ho hum de dum

The pope is a git

Ho hum de dum

Ignorance is bliss

What don't touch you, don't affect you

And what does affect you, might not touch you

For the shit that definitely touches and affects you

Ho hum de dum

Your love's been a waste

Ho hum de dum

The girl is still great

Ho hum de dum

You find a new mate

Ho hum de dum

Life isn't that great

Ho hum de dum

Whatever happens may be for good

That don't help when she stirs you up

Stares at you with utmost disgust

Gazing away, far, far away

Let it go beyond the fray

You're not a bad guy

Yet many women make you the fall guy

The world is on fire

Ho hum de dum

The situation is dire

Ho hum de dum

The glaciers are melting

Ho hum de dum

The activists are pelting

Ho hum de dum

Turn the tube and all hell’s broken loose

Some schmuck, for his inane cause

Planted bombs that are set off

Sorrow and grief everywhere

Wait a few days it’ll all go away

They blow the trumpet

Ho hum de dum

Break the phone set

Ho hum de dum

Left maybe right

Ho hum de dum

Wrong is surely right

Ho hum de dum

No matter what happens normality ensues

While people on the left are still getting sued

The media's on fire reporting the truth

What remains to be seen is if it is true

You read this rhyme

Ho hum de dum

Thought it was grand

Ho hum de dum

Maybe it was bland

Ho hum de dum

Just go take a hike

Ho hum de dum!

INDEED

They say a friend in need is a friend indeed

But the friend who does the deed is not in need

I get out at 2 am

There’s a truck on the road

I see it miles away

He’s probably heading home

He must be in a hurry

Cause he cuts all my space

I swerve to the left but it’s too late

I’m thrown off the ledge

But the truck’s pulled away

At this dire-needy-hour

You call upon your friend

He comes in a haste worried about you

Ready to paste one to the guys who did this to you

This is a man who does not fight

Come the hour he's breaking his own rules

Such is a bond between two friends

Even though there's only so much one can tell

People who do not have such friends

Tend to make fun calling them names

Never will they understand the friendship deed

Till someone helps them indeed!

CHASE

The ones you chase always run away

The ones you don't cling to stay

What's with these chicks they love the game

Even though it leads to no fame

If only they knew the way of the heart

They wouldn't smite you without a shout

Why the hell are you so frustrated?

God damnit you feel so saturated

Life is not free

You've got to pay a price

Even if you're nice

Your foot's stuck in the ice

Trying to break free from the norms of the world

Acceptance playing a big fat role

There has to be a being somewhere in this hole

Who can come around and make you whole

They say half the fun is in the chase

Even though you know it's not the case

They came up with the phrase

To pacify their jilted maze

BANNED

Lift this ban up
There’s nothing to control

Tear this ban up
There’s nothing to hold

Of all the highs in the world
Alcohol seems the devils own

While things like tobacco are there so cheap
A box of booze is not for keeps

It’s not only smoking that I mean
The chewable kind is harder to free

Why oh why then do we have this ban?
To fill the holes of people who never had

Gandhi wanted it for political reason
To stop the revenue for British treason

Gave up his life for the people of this nation
Corruption is the only gift we have given

Enter the thought of a Gujarati's mind
Safety correlates to the consumption of its kind

Hence it is labelled as a bad thing
Not thinking where all of it is going

Pay a hefty sum to bootleg a bottle
Most of the money goes for illicit extortion

Generating sums of millions
Not one paisa of it is legal

The poor who cannot afford these kind
Turn to their natives, drinking blind

The local shine can be fatal
Things added to increase intoxication

Still the big-wigs just stand by
With a tall glass of an aged wine

Even though the issue is faced by thousands
All we can do is bemoan the situation

The young Gujju out of his home
Sees a booze shop and loses control

Thus starts a drinking binge
Away from home
Who’s gonna see him?
His folks are at home

I’ve lost all hope of seeing a pub
Where I can just go and have some fun

Fast forward a million years this affair will prevail
It’ll reach a point where there’s only despair

Go-A!

Surrounded by heavenly bodies

In every shape and form

None of it matters to me

Solitude is all I want

Hard to imagine a place like this

Where you see things in eternal bliss

No one around gives a damn

But you have water everywhere

There is no torment anywhere

Happiness all the way

The tide is low take a dip

The tide goes high take a sip

Sit in a shack by the beach

Order some breakfast and some tea

Laze the morning in the shade

Get on the bike and ride away

Feel no tension in your way

Get to the next beach and press repeat

I promise, you can do this for weeks

The folk around don’t bother

But some around do matter

Livelihood, the biggest enemy

You'll be fleeced for every penny

In hindsight, it will all fade

The memories will be all that remain

Oh, Goa, you're amazing

Even when the sun is blazing

Just stay the way you are

No matter how near how far

A place where you can Go-A!

Inhuman

Learn the way of the high life

Grow up to be a big shot

But you're still missing shit

From the aforementioned high life

Spit on the sidewalk, inhuman

Trash the road, inhuman

Leave the lights on, inhuman

Burn the oxygen, inhuman

The dogs are wailing, inhuman

The poor are howling, inhuman

The world is crying, inhuman

But you don’t care...

Cause you're inhuman

Follow hypocrisy, inhuman

Put up a facade, inhuman

Say what is tough, inhuman

Do what is easy, inhuman

Respect the pope, inhuman

Diss your dad, inhuman

Salute the president, inhuman

Screw the army, inhuman

Lie to your folks, inhuman

Shy on the world, inhuman

Escape the good, inhuman

Join evil, inhuman

Say A, inhuman

Do B, inhuman

Hail C, inhuman

Ignore D, inhuman

You’re a coward, inhuman

Prick yourself, inhuman

Puff away, inhuman

Down the bottle, inhuman

Drown your sorrows, inhuman

Wake the next day, inhuman

Continue the cycle, inhuman

Hump the world, inhuman

Hypocrisy rules

Faith blues

Emotional diss

Ignorance bliss

Someone oughta slap you, inhuman

Wake the hell up, inhuman

Stop this shit, inhuman

Spare the world, inhuman

Try to be human, inhuman

RUNNING

Lying, cheating, deceit...

What’s the world come to?

Or was it always like this?

The insurance scam

The loan scam

The fodder scam

The software scam

The scams are endless

And hence the shams are endless

The cocky charades and plastic smiles

Never cease to befriend the mind

The deeper the wound

The more you sink

Till you are consumed by glee

And all of you is accounted for

The green is a nasty thing

The smell of it, the feel of it

The habit of it, the want of it

Makes you forget humanity

To the depths of the unknown you fall

Becoming a hungrier beast

Such a part of us it’s become

Guilt doesn't even come up

But, there still lies hope in a few

The ones who think alike

Running the other way