{"id":291,"date":"2016-01-12T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kjkmusic.co.uk\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:58:00","slug":"let-go-from-the-get-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/let-go-from-the-get-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Go From The Get Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Everybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody
\nNobody wants to be a nobody
\nBut I wouldn’t want to be nobody else.In a world so harsh, uncaring, competitive and rough
\nYou can often get the feeling that you’re just not good enough
\nSo you try to be more popular, try to be the star
\nChange yourself, homogenise
\nBut you’re amazing as you are<\/p>\n

Let go from the get go
\nWhy sacrifice for someone else’s dreams?
\nFolks will snipe and criticise
\nFolks will hate you too
\nBut the answer isn’t always what it seems
\nWe are created as we are, not as we’re wanted to be
\nYou can’t improve a flower by wishing it a tree<\/p>\n

Everybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody
\nNobody wants to be a nobody
\nBut I wouldn’t want to be nobody else<\/p>\n

Let go – don’t spend your life a wannabe
\nDon’t waste your time distressing on what others want to see
\nYou can wear all kinds of uniform
\nJoin the army, join a mob
\nAnd stand up for whatever views might justify the job
\nBut who’re we fooling anyway?
\nYou’re not an actor in a play
\nThe devil sings the sweetest song
\nTo those who just want to belong<\/p>\n

Everybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody
\nNobody wants to be a nobody
\nBut I wouldn’t want to be nobody else.<\/p>\n

Let go from the get go
\nLet go from the get go
\nLet go from the get go<\/p>\n

Blessed are the misfits, blessed are the freaks
\nBlessed are the losers, ’cause we’re all of us unique
\nIt’s not good for your sanity, it’s not good for your health
\nWhen you set out to destroy the things
\nThat remind you of yourself
\n‘Cause when you’ve finished changing everything that you’re about
\nYou’ll find yourself no different to how you started out<\/p>\n

Everybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody (else)
\nEverybody wants to be somebody
\nNobody wants to be a nobody
\nBut I wouldn’t want to be nobody else.<\/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
<\/div>\n
I originally wrote the main hook line for this, “Everybody wants to be somebody (else)”, for a poem called “The Clique” back around 1997.\u00a0 I found it again in my old notebook around 2011 and developed it into the funk jam that became this song. \u00a0 <\/em><\/div>\n
This is\u00a0 the type of song that benefits from a long gestation period – in between those two years I went from being a pure jazz musician to a goth to a Christian, I adopted\u00a0 a variety of names and identities\u00a0 for different projects, explored my gender and sexuality and experienced all manner of social groupings and life experiences, only to find after all that I’m not that much different from when I began, it’s just slightly more in perspective now. <\/em><\/div>\n
Let go from the get go and just be yourself, whatever that may be.\u00a0 You are anyway.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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