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A Social Conscience?

Composer:   Ed Hooke
Date of Composition/Copyright:   1983
Date of Recording:    2005

Commentary
A Social Conscience? - or not......    Sometimes in my songwriting I have challenged myself to express feelings which I feel uncomfortable with.  This song was inspired while walking home one evening to my bedsit in Manor House (Finsbury Park, London) in 1983, not long after moving from Southampton to London.

Worn out shoes, newspaper-stuffed,

on cold feet, trudging pavements

hidden from the darkness

by this strange pinky-orange light.

Newer shoes on warmer feet

hurrying on their way.

These are mine.

I feel no guilt.

The problem is the world's.

It's too big for me to solve. 

But I feel no guilt.

It's nothing to do with me.

I don't want to see

posters of starving children

a third world away

inbetween the posters for fine wines

and records.

That reminds me what I meant to buy

if I could just afford it.

Self-justification means sanity

at the end of the day. 

Just one of millions

just about getting by

Never satisfied.

Never quite.