Friday 27/02/09

Slowly but surely I think I’m growing up. Three years ago I was still at school, and determined to leave on the ring of the bell, if not hours before, and go home or to Pizza Hut. Nothing could keep me there. The problem seemed to be, in perfectly clear hindsight, that I just wasn’t mature enough to pay attention or have the motivation to do any real work. It was probably true at uni as well. Like most 18-year-olds, I was just a tall 9-year-old kid with pubic hair.

Now I’m at work, I feel like a proper adult who’s treated with the respect I have sought and deserved for a long time. People come to me and ask pertinent questions, rather than me being the one asking my teachers inane questions, such as seeking permission to go for a piss, which would’ve been some breach of my human rights if they had refused. I have returned the respect, even if it’s nothing but a veil in front of hatred and loathing, by offering them my own time. To prove it I made the ultimate sacrifice of going in to work on Saturday (the day Jeff Stelling keeps me company all afternoon). Nothing could’ve made me go into school at the weekend, even if they were offering cures for cancer and I’d recently developed leukaemia. I’d

Scarily I may repeat this again this weekend. If I have enough time I shall go in and work even though I don’t need to, an alien concept to me. I have other things to do; I need to get a haircut, there’s an Arsenal game to watch and I have a new year’s resolution to fulfil, which is looking pretty shakey at the moment. I said I’d make a whole follow up EP (because albums take ages) to Freeman Is A Problem, full of songs I’d written. Sadly, I’ve not got far at all, only having chosen 3 songs I’d quite like to cover. I’ve also written a vaguely offensive song (only lyrically so far) that would make Freeman Is A Problem, and telling him to go back to India, seem accepting. It’s an ironic song about Judaism and nothing I truly believe in. It’s probably not smart enough to be considered a satire, and if it was about Islam I wouldn’t expect to last the week, but I’ll share the lyrics. If anything it should encourage me to work at the weekends, evenings and overnight if it keeps me from writing such things.

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(verse 1)

are they a race or just a religion
america provides them with ammunition
this time you have no gaza strip
we're in britain and i've got my whip

i hope that you're not circumsized
if you are there's every chance you'll die
if your nose is bigger than an encylopedia
and if you secrectly run the whole western media

(Verse 2)

we'll make them go to the desert for 40 years
assign them some more mortal fears
banish them from jerusalem
for saying the messiah wasn't born in bethlehem

We’d do it to Jesus and make sure he sees us
A crucifixtion with no restrictions
The gaping stigmata, no help from his father
Who forsaketh him once again

(pre chorus)

Replace the stars of David with the stars round your head
Because you’re gonna be dead
Yeah you’re gonna be dead

(Chorus)

‘cause I’m Jew bashing
yeah I’m Jew bashing
you’ve got a small hat, so we’re gonna hit you
Let’s go and fuck up some Jews

‘cause I’m Jew bashing
yeah I’m Jew bashing
Help me out, you can join in too
Let’s go and fuck up some Jews

(Bridge)

but we wont do it to muslims
‘cause they’ll blow themselves up

we wont do it to Christians
cause they’ll picket my funeral

we wont do it to hindus
because they like cows

only you, the jews

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I’m definitely not growing up.