{"id":163,"date":"2016-10-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/i-will-not-write-a-song\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"i-will-not-write-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/i-will-not-write-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Not Write a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

I WILL NOT WRITE A SONG<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry January 1973<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nSitting in my room I read the ‘Siege of Gondor<\/i>‘<\/span>
\nIn the”War of the Ring of Mordor<\/i>“<\/span>
\nFull of the dread and the dead and the bloodshed<\/span>
\nEnough to make a heart quake and quail.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nPutting down the book to sip some coffee<\/span>
\nI turned on the radio to hear<\/span>
\nThe latest dribble of one hit blunders,<\/span>
\nwhen in the gloom of my thought<\/span>
\nrose a voice, articulate yet monotoned.<\/span>
\nThe ‘on the hour<\/i>‘ BBC newscaster,<\/span>
\ncommunicating to my ears<\/span>
\nthe latest groans of the wizened and wide world outside.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nHe told of the bombing of North Vietnam<\/span>
\nof truce broken and of suffering<\/span>
\nand the dread and dead and the bloodshed.<\/span>
\nHe told of the earthquakes and looting and gunshooting<\/span>
\nand told us to beware of on coming motorway smog.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nAt this point i would have lit up a fag<\/span>
\ncause I could have done with a drag ‘cept I don’t smoke.<\/span>
\nAnd I felt like writing a song and i said to myself ” I’ll write a song<\/i>“<\/span>
\nWith paper to pen, I thought again and decided against it there and then.<\/span>
\nFor what can one song do that a thousand before failed to do?<\/span>
\nHow can one song change the fate of the world, stop a war, open a door or give life to the dying?<\/span>
\nWhat can one man’s tears do to avail<\/span>
\nwhen many a million have been shed but to fail?<\/span>
\nHow can a song change the fate  of the world?<\/span>
\nYet it is said that a song can influence a man into action<\/span>
\nand many have served to serve humbly their cause<\/span>
\nbut none that I know of, have served to throw off<\/span>
\nthe evils which besiege our sitting room goggle box gods.<\/span>
\nSo what can it do to write a song\/<\/span>
\nNo I will not write a song.<\/span>
\nI will not, will not, will not write a song.<\/span>
\nI may as well conserve the effort and have myself a damn good shit.<\/span>
\nSo I sipped some more coffee before pulling down the seat to sit upon the loo.<\/span>
\nAnd the shit that i had was a good one too,<\/span>
\nthe best I had had for along time.<\/span>
\nThen i pulled up my pants, flushed the pan, washed my hands<\/span>
\nand tightening my belt, I stooped to stroke the Poodle that was<\/span>
\npining to be let out for a pee.<\/span>
\nAnd I opened the door and let him free to free his pee<\/span>
\nand somehow I knew that the pee that he peed was the best that he’d peed for a long time.<\/span>
\nAnd shutting the door with  a clunk and a clink<\/span>
\nand a pick of my nose, that with a flick, fell to the floor.<\/span>
\nI sat on the bed, scratching my head, fearing the dread and the dead and bloodshed.<\/span>
\nAnd if my words to you seem so foul, then how you must howl<\/span>
\nat the reasons why I will not write a song.<\/span>
\nNo I will not, will not, will not write a song.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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