Wholl Forget
Episode #12: Who'll Forget - (Song at 4:10)\nA political song this week. I wrote this one back in 2002. It\u2019s popped up again now. It was released once as 100 CDs, a booklet with lyrics and watercolour / pen paintings. But it always felt like a demo. \nI\u2019m going to re-record this album. I have repainted the original watercolour / pen sketches in acrylic and developed them some more.\xa0 I\u2019ll include these with the new release. \nIn the intervening years since I wrote the song, it only seems to have become more prescient - and pertinent. These are worrying times. The more art and music that draws our attention to matters that (in my opinion) need urgent attention and addressing, the better. \nSo, I\u2019ll make no apologies for the serious mood that pervades this episode. \nThere is an element of hope. There\u2019s always hope. But it\u2019ll take action to turn things around. \nThis about the danger of where things might get to if there is capitalism with no controls/limits in place. \nAs usual, I analyse the lyrics - at the risk of coming across as special, or conceited - I step outside the song, forget for a moment that I was the writer and look at the words as they are. \nThere\u2019s a line that's very pertinent to these present uncertain times with Covid-19: \nWhere\u2019s all your berries, stick them all here - next to your dead buried, without even a care. \nIt hit me between the eyes when I read it this week. \nI\u2019m an optimist, I hope for great things in the future. There are great people doing great things today leading to this possibility. \nFor today, here\u2019s a snapshot of our times, written 18 years ago. \nIts a bit grim - I lost most of my income overnight as an artist / musician entertainer. But quite amazingly, this was the very week I\u2019d committed to publishing the podcast, a new start to this blog and a new Youtube channel. \nThe time to publish is now.