BIG MAN ON PAPER RCA promo CD-single 9144-2-RDJ, 1989, USA

..........the numbing effect that disaster on the news has on us. The grieving bereaved, Thatcher turning up at the scene of the tragedy, a mask of compassion plastered on her face, the abductor appearing on the news three weeks later, being abducted by the Police. Were his teeth rotting stumps, or was it just the early morning light and shaky camera work?..........if you grew up collecting the little golliwogs hidden behind the labels on jars of Robinson's Jam, details like these become blurred. These days, they're far less subtle in their approach. Now, the sugar marketing board makes the videos on dental care that get shown in schools all over Gt. Britain!, a nation addicted to the gutter press and longing to have their strawberries irradiated..........meanwhile, birds were singing, rainbows hung in the sky. The sun beamed down making the white picket fences appear as a series of blinding Christian crosses. The black family appeared at their door, the Mommy and a couple of kids. They seemed so perfect, they made the Cosby family look positively menacing. Floating down the imitation street in an imitation car, who should they see but Daddy, a mailbag slung over his shoulder and his perfect smile catching the artificial sunlight as his family drifted by, waving, off to get a really good meal!..........the guy stood on a corner in N.Y.C. handing out leaflets, wearing a placard and 'broadcasting'. There are plenty of broadcasters in N.Y., but this one obviously spoke the truth. 'A.I.D.S. didn't come from the homosexuals,' he explained, 'or the whores, the Haitians or the blacks. And it didn't come from little Green Monkeys. It was developed,' he went on, 'by the U.S. government to control our sexuality!' Who am I to argue with this genius of street wisdom? And here's the second verse, one of the many that didn't make the record.

In a lab somewhere a rodent pair were busy mating
As their D.N.A. got blown away it changed the shape of dating
And the population got the message clean up clean up
Big Daddy tells his children clean up clean up..........
..........but Everything Goes..........

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