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Context:
This song essentially summarises the factual events that took place at a seminary in 2019. The sem students had won the yearly netball competition against the borders after a losing streak of 12 years. When the teaching staff had learned that the winning team of sem students were intending to engrave the words "Seminary students" (as was the tradition of the establishment since the beginning of this competition many decades ago) into the trophy cup (and not the factual current true name of the establishment), the trophy was soon discovered stolen and taken hostage by a staff member and held at ransom in disgust of the seminary student's intentions. This was because "Seminary Students" was not considered "inclusive enough" to represent all of the establishment's wider student community. After some time, a stand off, and some mediation, the teaching staff encouraged the formal student board (who represents the sem student body) and their elected members to vote on what should be engraved onto the trophy. The student board voted and it was formally resolved that "seminary students" was to be engraved into the trophy as per the tradition of the annual Netball Competition. The trophy was later released, unharmed, to the dismay of the teaching staff and with one controlled sigh from the seminary student body.
lyrics
Why’d you have to go and not call it a seminary?
Lyrics by Peter Noble Copyright 2019
Intro.
Ah Huh.
Sem’s like this.
Ah Huh.
Yeah that’s just the way it is.
V1.
Chill out, what cha stealin' for?
You won’t take it anymore.
And if we could only just agree to disagree,
That trophy belongs to us,
12 years a loosing streak for us,
Has been so frustrating
“seminary”–we’re in engraving.
Pre.
the trophy we won,
We're Having some fun,
We try to relax--
Watchin' our backs,
We're gettin' attacked,
Political acts
And words.
Ch.
So tell me,
Why'd ya have to go and not call it a seminary?
It really is annoying when the logo is just so temporary–
What to do now, when you go and ya changin’ the name—so that all that I can do—is simply complain.
Or, should I just lump it or change denominations?
Oh no.
V2.
We won the trophy finally,
We beat the borders easily,
And we celebrated with one sigh of relief,
12 years a slave is so bizarre,
My wife played like a super star,
Not bad, when the whole team's on the dole.
Scoring goals.
Pre.
Trophies we won,
We're havin' some fun'
The language we use,
Did not include,
Politically right,
Terms that you wanna hear—
Ch.
Tell me!
Why'd ya have to go and not call it a seminary?
The only person on the team who didn't even play was David Cherry. With Games like this an,
When you know that the words that cha use, will be watched like hawk, from a leftist view an, should I be Catholic worship the Virgin Mary?
Oh no!
Ch.
Why'd you have to go and just steal our only trophy?
You know that it's wrong, you shoulda played netball you’d be more holy, with games like this and—
Gettin' emails—massive abuse
Cos of inclusive language we did not use or' should I bite the bullet an’ just join a monastery?
Oh no!
(Bridge) No no no no!
V3.
Your e—mail comes unannounced.
I don't, like the way it sounds.
I feel deep inside.
I could take your things and feel justified.
It's not the way it's meant to to be,
If you work at a Seminary
You're not the thought police,
And you don't want us to think you are.
Pre:
Tryin’ to control
The thoughts in our head.
I think that I thought,
A thought that I said--
But now I'm confused,
I think I'm accused again.
Ch. tell me!
Maybe we can think this whole thing doesn't matter.
Maybe you can start your own netball games and Horrie Packer. Games like this an—
Start a team, with the rest you're friends
But whatever you do—don't call it a ‘sem’,
Start a new Lutheran renewal and Jacob's ladder?
No no!
Ch.
I can say seminary—I don't need your permission,
You know stealing's wrong and definitely not in your job description. Games like this an—if you wanted a friend, but you thought that we think independently, think again.
Cos, we only do we're told at the seminary--
No-no-nooooooo
credits
released June 1, 2019
Lyrics and production by Peter Noble Copyright 2019, released 2021.
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