Suspicious

There’s a song called Art Lover that Ray Davies of The Kinks wrote back in the day. It’s a beautiful, sad little song, and it initially got banned by the Beeb.

Reason being it sounded, well, Suspicious. The lyric seems to be speaking about a predatory man watching young girls in a park. But in fact it was a song about divorced fathers who didn’t have access to their children and were simply experiencing, in the presence of other children, the memories of something that had been taken from them. Ray Davies intentionally kept the lyric ambiguous, even provocative, not revealing the true meaning, and leaving the song open to the controversy it caused.

I loved the Kinks and I loved that song. Look it up and give it a listen.

I think I might have had that one in mind when I wrote todays blog title tune.
Because things are often not how they seem. We get wrong signals and impressions all the time. These days we are bombarded, if we choose to be, with a vast multitude of images and stories about everyone and everything. Many of them are, at the very least, misleading. Sadly we often act on those first impressions. It’s human nature.

But getting to know anybody or anything takes time. There are no shortcuts.

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