Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Lyric of the indeterminate time period

It's come to my attention that I haven't updated in quite a while, again. And as it's a bit late and I'm tired*, right now it's going to have to be just another nice little quote that I've just come across and thought was cool. (I'll try and do a proper post tomorrow, promise.) This one's from Stanley Accrington, a singer-songwriter in the same vein as Billy Bragg, who is also the brother of an awesome family friend, Wendy Pratt. (Neither of them are awesome only for their hilarious names. Also, Stanley Accrington is not Stanley's real name but a stage name based on an amusing inversion of the popular football team. Obviously.)

Anyway, any more preamble and I'm setting myself up for yet another blogly anti-climax, so here's the lyric:

"Reality is not as real as it may seem
You pay and you pay but you're giving your life away

So you can say that I'm crazy
You can say I'm quite insane
It never ceases to amaze me
How people will conform
It's no insult that you've hurled
Only madmen change the world
So you can call me crazy
I don't mind."

I'm really only in this for the first and antepenultimate lines (and of course for the chance to use the word antepenultimate), which just struck some kind of chord with me, but they didn't make sense out of context so I thought I'd treat you to the whole bridge/chorus caboodle. If you liked it, visit this in-all-probability-very-out-of-date website to find out more.

* this was true when I wrote it, but bloody Blogger thwarted my efforts to publish last night, because it is Mean.