I'm sorry for offending you
And exposing the naked truth
But I can't sing the way you do
All that sugar hurts my false tooth

I'm sorry you can't understand
The value of a song comes from inside
I'm sorry `cos this isn't what I planned
I'm sorry that Rock has died

I'm sorry for the cuts
And I'm sorry for the digs
I'm sorry that you have no guts
And I'm sorry that you're pigs

I'm sorry I won't get rich
`Cos I refuse to be like you
But the real tragedy in this
Is that I feel sorry for you

04/07/1989

Author's Note: After finally finishing “Artificial Artists”, which took nearly six years to complete through various changes, I had a dream about being sued by Madonna and Michael Jackson. In the dream, while appearing in court, I had two lawyers who turned out to be Pete Ham and Tom Evans. Both Ham and Evans were members of the band Badfinger and both committed suicide by hanging themselves in their garages. It is significant to the dream because the reasons for their suicides had to do with the music business destroying their lives. The business manager for the band had been secretly emptying their bank accounts after creating an elaborate system of funneling their money into a corporation he created for that express purpose. Ham took his life after finally coming to the realization that he had been lied to and betrayed by someone he completely trusted and who had left him financially destitute, unable to pay for his home, much less anything else after selling millions of records the world over. Several years later, after trying to recreate the band and the magic of the Badfinger years to little avail, Evans did the same. JJ

Posted on 09/28/2005
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