John Denver

from Poets' Day by The Chickpea Darlings

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"I heard from a former psychiatric nurse about the time when 'Care In The Community' was adopted the national policy for 'looking after' vulnerable people in the UK in the mid 1980's. I was told that Bedfordshire social workers - whose clients, some of them with really significant mental illness, were effectively being turfed out into the streets - drove vulnerable adults to the station, bought them one-way tickets, and put them on trains to Brighton, because they'd get better social care there than in Luton. I don't know the scale or how accurate the details of the story were - but looking at the way the current UK government is behaving itself, it's all too easy to imagine the awful truth of it." - Huw.

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'You like John Denver. You love him...'

Go to the seaside
Take all your problems with you
Head down to Brighton
Before winter comes
Go to the seaside
We’ll drive you to the station
What’s left for you in Luton
Now all’s been said and done?

Go to the seaside
And take your demons with you
Head down to Brighton
And set your demons free
And if you are your problems
Or if you are your demons
Then you must take those demons
And drown them in the sea

Go to the seaside
A world of bed and breakfast
Head down to Brighton
For a life of social care
Forget your medication
Just walk into the water
The waters close above you
Like you were never there
Like you were never there
Like you were never there

Hats off to the invisible man
A big hand for the invisible man
High five to the invisible man...

...and on, and on, and on, ad infinitum...

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from Poets' Day, released June 6, 2017
Written by Huw Darling.

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The Chickpea Darlings Letchworth Garden City, UK

'Riot' has OFFICIALLY left the building. Thanks, Darrin.

The Darlings: Middle-aged bedroom miserablists with C86-ish tendencies, The Chickpea Darlings have seen the future and don't care for the cut of its jib. Their dry-as-a-biscuit pop vignettes provide the perfect soundtrack for speculating on the madness to come. Viva Donald Trump, global warming & the death of democracy. Viva the Darlings. ... more

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