{"id":284,"date":"2016-01-12T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kjkmusic.co.uk\/?p=284"},"modified":"2016-01-12T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:41:26","slug":"dont-want-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/dont-want-to-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Want To Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Songs From The Age Of Human Error by Kerry Jackson-Kay<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been said so many times it has to be true
\nYou can never have your cake and eat it up too
\nWell that may be so but I’ve still got to try
\nI want to have my cake, eat it, taste it, share it, love it
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose<\/div>\n
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You’ve got to hold fast, pin your colours to the mast
\nDon’t change your game, stay the same as when they saw you last
\nAm I a boy or a girl?
\nHow do I fit in this world?
\nAm I rich or poor, black or white, do I give up?
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose<\/div>\n
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Do you think that I’m sick ’cause I don’t deny the feelings I have inside?
\nDo you think I’m a freak ’cause I don’t want to find a safe place to run and hide?
\nDo you think I’m a coward ’cause I don’t want to fight for your ignorance?
\nWhen did freedom become such a dirty word?The world isn’t black, the world isn’t white
\nThey try to tell me that it is but I know it isn’t right
\nIt’s a world of many colours, so much wonderful stuff
\nOne life per person really isn’t enough
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose
\nI don’t want to choose<\/p>\n

Do you think that I’m sick ’cause I don’t deny the feelings I have inside?
\nDo you think I’m a freak ’cause I don’t want to find a safe place to run and hide?
\nDo you think I’m a coward ’cause I don’t want to fight for your ignorance?
\nWhen did freedom become such a dirty word?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

credits<\/h3>\n
from Songs From The Age Of Human Error<\/a>, released November 7, 2015
\nWords and music by Kerry Jackson-Kay
\nPerformed and produced by Kerry Jackson-Kay<\/div>\n
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I wrote this some time around 2006.\u00a0 Gender fluidity is one of the inspiring contexts, but more generally this is about pressure to pick and commit to a particular set of traits and beliefs in order to belong to an established group, which always involves also rejecting something else.\u00a0 This frustration is a recurring theme in my work – it bothers me when important and personal issues get turned into currency to make people choose one side or another for arbitrary reasons. \u00a0 <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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