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Let's Take Offence!

from Let's Take Offence! by Andrew London Trio

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anthem to political correctness

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I’ve had to bid the Good Keen Man adieu
I’ve been politically corrected by the cultural milieu
Got my finger on the pulse, and to the zeitgeist I am hip
a serious renaissance man cannot afford a slip

So I’ve adopted the philosophy du jour
we’ve been far too easy going and pathetically demure
can we all become aware, we need to be less laissez-faire
and learn to spot an insult, when it isn’t even there

Let’s take offence, let’s get uptight and intense, let’s take offence
let hostilities commence
let’s take umbrage and exception
take a slight and take objection
let’s abandon commonsense and take offence

Let’s take offence, misinterpret compliments and take offence
let’s start seeking recompense
let’s get upset and get upended, let’s get down and get offended
the return could be immense. let’s take offence.

There’ll be no end to what we can achieve,
by acting all insulted and acceptably aggrieved
it’s lately been reported that the system can be rorted
if your underwear’s contorted and you’re satisfactorily peeved

let’s work ourselves into a frightful tiz
cos there are government departments dedicated to the business
of protracted litigation and self-righteous indignation
I can’t wait to get offended and start sending invoices

just getting miffed would be a pity, let’s get really good and shitty
let’s get down from off the fence,
get uptight and intense
let’s abandon commonsense and let’s take offence

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from Let's Take Offence!, track released October 1, 2017
words and music by Andrew London (guitar & vox). bass Kirsten London, sax Nils Olsen

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New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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