Oh, dear. 180-degree turn, Anyone?

[capri0mni]

The last time I wrote a song (I think, if I recall correctly) was just about three years ago (I posted the first draft of it here: A new song, what I done finished, today:.

The chorus contains these lines:

"Well, I won't be your metaphor
For Grace, or lack of Grace,
'Cause I am simply human,
In this complex human race." [*]

....

But over the last few days (Weeks?) I've had this growing urge to write a new song... using the Metaphor of Monsters to describe the Disability Experience -- maybe somehow adapting the metaphors and imagery of this Monster Ramble into something with form, and a beat.

Er... Oops?

[*] That was in response, mainly, to Si Kahn's "It's not just what your born with," where he compares the Angelic-Disabled-People-Who-Have-So-Much-to-Teach-Us to Those-Evil-Able-Bodied-People-Who-Are-Wealthy-and-Corrupt; it's an okay song, until you get to the last verse. Then it makes me want to throw things.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Hey! Si Kahn's song at least acknowledges people with chronic pain. But yes, it's soupy.

180° turns are OK — you can always disavow it later if you must.

[capri0mni]

Si Kahn's song at least acknowledges people with chronic pain.

This is true... But it still rubs me the wrong way. Especially since it's written in the "Those People" voice, rather than "We People." You know?

180 degree turns = the flipside of the coin & and the other edge of the double-edged sword.

[jesse_the_k]

Especially since it's written in the "Those People" voice, rather than "We People." You know?

I know all too well, and that's an excellent way to phrase it. OTOH, Holly Near's "Something About the Women" was worse :,)

[capri0mni]

hmf.

Maybe I'll skip that song. Mostly I like her work.