{"id":302,"date":"2016-01-12T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kjkmusic.co.uk\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-01-12T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:39:53","slug":"life-as-a-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/life-as-a-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Life As A Tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Never belonging, always passing through
\nWhat people say never matches what they do
\nSeems like everyone’s deluded except you
\nBut how would you even know if that’s not true?<\/div>\n
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Dressed up to our true ideals
\nThe golden image of the inner self
\nScavenged costume and painted cake
\nSo unwitting of our teenager mistakes
\nYou despaired of the girls we saw
\nIn their combats and boots
\nHow can they so waste their femininity?
\nYou so wanted to guide them
\nBut I would have been them<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Life as a tourist
\nSearching for the world supposed to be
\nOn a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
\nI will be the perfect me, wait and see<\/div>\n
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City boy achieves his dream and buys his place in the country
\nBut the locals won’t indulge his fantasy
\nHe complains about the lack of respect
\nThey show for their rustic heritage
\nLord of the Mock Tudor Manor, knight of the Vorsprung Durch
\nAnd they hated him and mocked his name
\nAnd rightly so, because who’d like such a man that would patronise
\nBut are we guilty of just the same behaviour?<\/div>\n
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Life as a tourist
\nSearching for the world supposed to be
\nLife as a tourist
\nSearching for the world supposed to be
\nOn a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
\nI will be the perfect me, wait and see
\nOn a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
\nI will be the perfect me, whatever I most want to beLife as a tourist
\nSearching for the world supposed to be
\nLife as a tourist
\nLife as a tourist<\/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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This one didn’t have a chorus until the very last minute.\u00a0 The original concept was a series of related verses about how desire to find a place that will match the idealised vision most of us build of how life ought to be can result in behaviour and attitudes that only increase alienation and isolation, leading to the simple conclusion that this is life as a tourist.\u00a0 Once I actually recorded it though, the need for a more developed chorus section became apparent. <\/em><\/div>\n
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The second verse is a reference to some I encountered in the trans scene who seemed to treat crossdressing as a mission of conquest to demonstrate to their tomboyish girlfriends how to more closely resemble the perfect women they wished them to be, with predictably awful results for all concerned.\u00a0 The third verse describes a scenario familiar to anyone who has lived in anywhere vaguely rural, where wealthy urbanites will arrive in pursuit of an idyllic country house existence with barely disguised contempt for locals showing any signs of living in a way not fitting with their Olde Englishe Dornford Yates fantasies.\u00a0 <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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