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This punky anthem is a reflection on what happened at school in the 1980s with kids using words like spastic as insults and poking fun at disabled people.

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I never thought

Playground bullies with their tongue behind their bottom lip
Everybody knows what’s coming next
Mimicking a spastic from Blue Peter
A man who overcame so many things

Tell me what will you achieve in your life
To rival what Joey Deacon did
Can you ever overcome your lack of empathy?
Not teaching hatred to your kids

I never thought that I would write a song
To praise the butt of all the jokes
I wish I’d never gone along with them
It’s overdue I spoke

Sleepwalking through a valley full of insults
Now it really makes me feel quite sick
Always picking on the ones who couldn’t fight back
Strength’s the only thing that won respect

Tell me what will you achieve in your life
To rival what Joey Deacon did
Can you ever overcome your lack of empathy?
Not teaching hatred to your kids

I never thought that I would write a song
To praise the butt of all the jokes
I wish I’d never gone along with that
It’s overdue I spoke

Don’t laugh along with racists, sexist pigs,
homophobic assholes and don’t use ableist slurs

We should find inspiration
Not laugh at them cos they’re different
There is so much to learn
If you look at life afresh every day
It’s time we threw the old ways
full of prejudice away

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from Before the robots told us where to go, released December 3, 2021
Composed and performed by Joe Peacock
Produced by Joe Adhemar

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Joe Peacock Birmingham, UK

I'm a prolific singer-songwriter from Birmingham - a genre-hopping storyteller, whose music has been compared to Bowie, Blur, Costello and many others. Mostly, my songs tell stories that I find interesting and thought provoking. My music has all been recorded at home so far and all money from the digital sales of my music go into paying producers/mixing & mastering engineers. ... more

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