The Axis of Awesome
4 Chords Live At 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
[Intro: Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis, Lee Naimo, Jordan and Lee]
We've been a comedy rock band for close to 40 years now
And in all that time we never had a hit
But you guys know why
Why?
Cause we never wrote a four-chord song
What's that? What's a four-chord song, Benny?
All the greatest hits from the past 40 years
Just use four chords
Same four chords for every song
It's dead simple to write a pop hit
Just four?
Yeah these four, here
One, two, three, four
Four chords
That's all you need to
Let me get this straight Chicken Little
What you're trying to say is you can take those four chords, repeat them and pump out every pop song ever
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah...
Fuck off
Yeah fuck off, Chicken Little
Just listen

[Song: Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis, Lee Naimo, All]
Do you recognize this?
Yeah that is Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
That's a great song
Very original song
There's a few more that fit
Check it out
My life is brilliant, my love is pure
I saw an angel, of that I'm sure

Well that's just two songs that are similar..
That's not a big deal

Forever Young, I wanna be Forever Young

Three songs
Three songs

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

This is the way you left me
I'm not pretending
No hope, no love, no glory
No happy ending

Cause you were amazing
And we did amazing things

If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go

And can you feel the love tonight?
And she will be loved
And she will be loved

Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see

Cause I can't live
With or without you

Whenever I fall at your feet
Won't you let your tears

Am I not pretty enough?
Is my heart too broke-

[Stops]

Double time? Double time!

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner

That's the way it's gonna be little darlin'
We'll be riding on the horses, yeah yeah
No Woman No Cry

Yeah, momma this surely is a dream

I come from a land down under

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong

Take on me
When I come around
Take me on
When I come around
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Save tonight
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
And fight the break of dawn
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

If I were a boy
I know she's playin' with me
I think I could understand
But that's okay because I got no self-esteem
With a thousand lies and a good disguise
Hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes

'Cos I'm not here for your entertainment
You don't really wanna mess with me tonight

Can't read my, can't read my
No, he can't read my poker face

Come on Barbie, let's go party

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me

She wants to touch me, wo-hoo
She wants to love me, wo-hoo
She'll never leave me, wo-hoo, wo-hoo, hoo, hoo

Control yourself, take only what you need from it

Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags
To the supermarket
Take your canvas bags

Nothing's fine, I'm torn
I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I'm ashamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see

I'm more than a bird
I'm more than a plane
I'm a birdplane
I'm a birdplane
A motherfucking birdplane

Doesn't that sound familiar?
Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver;
The way things have gone?
And doesn't that seem peculiar
Cause everyone wants a little more?
Something that I do remember
To never go this far
That's all it takes to be a star