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  1. Outsiders

From the recording Family Portraits (Volume V)

A song about a group of loosely connected "outsiders" within my (massive) extended family.

Lyrics

Outsiders

One of us is involuntarily celibate
The mother of another thinks he is super intelligent
A third one says he sees the future, uncannily prescient
None of us will ever be future president

None of any of us educated
Taking part in life is overrated
The situation is complicated
Circumstances have been mitigated

We don’t care
We’re outsiders
Independently owned and operated
Not so much loved as tolerated
In-and-outers
Come and go as we please

Some think of us as impenitent while
Others think we come across impertinent
‘Cos
We don’t explain ourselves, we’re self-evident
Any more would be a bore and we are far too reticent

Mum and Dad are just so frustrated
Weighing up the coins they’ve donated
To a future cause already outdated
All the things to say are left unstated

We don’t care
We’re outsiders
Independently owned and operated
Not so much loved as tolerated
In-and-outers
Come and go as we please

We just do as we please
At least that is what we tell ourselves
Yeah!
We are free
Yes, we are free
At least that’s what we tell ourselves
Yeah!


We don’t care
We’re outsiders
Independently owned and operated
Not so much loved as tolerated
In-and-outers
Come and go as we please

We are outsiders, yeah!
On the outside!
We are outsiders, yeah!
And on the inside!