{"id":295,"date":"2016-01-12T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kjkmusic.co.uk\/?p=295"},"modified":"2016-01-12T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:09:43","slug":"295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/295\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A man on an island, but with ancestors from foreign lands
\nDespairs of the fate of his people
\nInvaded by faces and colours and words he can’t understand
\nHe spits out testosterone
\nHe has warrior blood in his genes
\nToo bad it never made it to his brain
\n‘Cause there ain’t no courage to be seen
\nCould it be he’s a racist?
\nCould it be he’s just frightened?
\nWhat he is is an idiot
\nEverything else is just a symptom.<\/p>\n

And all he sees around is Queer Folk
\nHe wonders what’s the world coming to
\nBy force of personality he’s decided more lesbians
\nThan any other agent could do
\nHe knows all he needs to know
\nThe papers spell it all out so clear
\nPerverts and homos and lifters and freaks
\nHad better never show their faces round here
\nCould it be he’s a homophobe?
\nCould it be he’s just frightened?
\nWhat he is is an idiot
\nEverything else is just a symptom.<\/p>\n

Standing in the safety of his self-importance
\nDividing the world into Them And Me
\nGod forbid things might be more complicated
\nHis Dad always taught him
\nHe knows what’s right and what’s wrong
\nThe right’s in the mirror, the wrong’s over there
\nAnd bullying makes a man strong
\nCould it be he’s a bigot?
\nCould it be he’s just frightened?
\nWhat he is is an idiot
\nEverything else is just a symptom.<\/p>\n

Could it be he’s frustrated?
\nCould it be he’s just frightened?
\nWhat he is is an idiot
\nEverything else is just a symptom.<\/p>\n

credits
\nfrom Songs From The Age Of Human Error, released November 7, 2015
\nWords and music by Kerry Jackson-Kay
\nPerformed and produced by Kerry Jackson-Kay<\/p>\n

Pretty self-explanatory, this one.\u00a0 I wrote it around 2004 at a time when I was consciously avoiding writing political songs (I was never a fan of t-shirt politics in music or elsewhere) and wanted to write a catch-all song to deride the assortment of bigotted views I actually did want to attack. \u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll admit to cleaning up the more profane original title of the song for this recording – in my younger days I thought the sentiment called for a stronger word, but now I actually prefer the blunt insolence of the simple ‘idiot’.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Songs From The Age Of Human Error by Kerry Jackson-Kay A man on an island, but with ancestors from foreign lands Despairs of the fate of his people Invaded by faces and colours and words he can’t understand He spits out testosterone He has warrior blood in his genes Too bad it never made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-songs-from-the-age-of-human-error-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}