Song notes:
SpoilerThis guy put a flyer through my letterbox last week asking me, an immigrant, to vote for him in the local council elections. Yeah nah M8.

In the past few years there have been rising incidents of accommodation earmarked for asylum seekers being set on fire by those who have fallen prey to the rhetoric of the right wing, with politicians like yer man up there fuelling the flames, so to speak. Plus some riots.

Woodbrook House is an estate house in my county, believed to be one of the main places where Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels.

This song uses an acoustic piano I sampled late last year, an acoustic piano setting on a digital piano, and an electric piano.

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For Your Consideration
Hot Pink Halo
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On the steps of Woodbrook House
They come a-knocking
Seeking kindness, seeking safety
Seeking shelter from the storm
Lives upturned, the future spurned

You want my consideration
But for that to be an option
You would need to make some changes
To your thoughts
Your actions lead to anger
And that anger isn't welcome
Burning buildings aren't the answer
It breaks my heart to see
Your poison run its course
So please take that on board
For your consideration

Swiftly go the Lilliputians
When we come looking for
A little help
Stranded on shores, tied up in conflict
Faced with minds that are so small

You want my consideration
But for that to be an option
You would need to make some changes
To your thoughts
Your actions lead to anger
And that anger isn't welcome
Spreading hate is not the answer
It breaks my heart to see
Your poison run its course
So please take that on board
For your consideration

Is it “we ourselves” or “ourselves alone”
Together we’re better
Or we’ll be forever undone
By bad decisions leading to a place
So dark you can’t return

You want my consideration
But for that to be an option
You would need to make some changes
To your thoughts
Your actions lead to anger
And that anger isn't welcome
Slamming doors is not the answer
It breaks my heart to see
Your poison run its course
So please take that on board
For your consideration