This is what you might call wearing your influences on your sleeve and is a combination of a tune written to emulate "The Teardrop Explodes" and a lyric inspired by "XTC". Another very early idea which sprang from the drum beat. Subconsciously I wanted to write "Reward" and before I knew it the song had grown a horn section. I wrote the lyric separately to the tune of "Garden Of Earthly Delights" by "XTC" although I think I managed to give them there own resonance.
This is a song about freedom of speech and the way we all are brought up to a specific way of thinking through our specific upbringing and experiences. The right of free speech is fundamental if any democracy is to work, even when faced with bigoted, racist, sexist, whatever ...ist views you may come up against. It's only by hearing these extremes that you may become aware of how wrong they are.
Oh if only I practiced what I preached.