Morons is an up-tempo rocker featuring piano reminiscent musically of Marionette and lyrically Crash Street Kidds wherein Ian rants against politicians, the upper crusty educated, and the media for treating ordinary people like morons. It could be a sardonic song that Randy Newman might write. Robbie Alter (guitar, bass, and piano) asked Ian in 1998 to write a song like Marionette and Hunter wrote another similar song just for fun. It was in this quasi-opera style and once completed the floodgates for the CD began to blossom. Morons is like a Hoople track and covers the same ground on Rant.
Eton and Harrow Schools, Oxford, Cambridge and the elites keep the average people as morons while taking advantage of them. The last verse is a bit more personal where the singer will "abandon hope all who live here" as Dante said in his work Inferno.
There is an early version of the song on The Journey, Rant, and there is a live version from 2005.
Ian Hunter On Track for Sonicbond Publishing, TheDoctorOfDigital@pm.me
Dante Alighieri's work Inferno
Morons is an up-tempo rocker, with plenty of piano, reminiscent musically of Marionette and lyrically Crash Street Kidds where Ian positively spits venom at the politicians and media for treating people like... well, morons: "Read moron newspapers, watch moron television... Etonians, Harovians think they're the chosen ones", and later "Look at those morons! They do nothing but whine and they're slow all the time... We can leave 'em behind, while we're dumbing them down we'll be robbing them blind!"
Harrow School
Morons
(Ian Hunter)
We were morons from the day we were born
We believed every word that you said - boy were we wrong
We're all fat now - on the sofas - mini morons - taking over
Cos we're older now, older now, older now, older now
We were morons - red, white and blue
We were working class kids on the skids - with nothing to do
We're all dead now - in our boxes - holding on to what little we got left
Cos it's over now, over now, over now, over now
Read moron newspapers, watch moron television
All laid on by slimy little, sleazy little, phony little morons
Etonians, Harrovians, think they're the chosen ones
And they poke fun at scruffy little, spotty little, stupid little morons
Ha ha ha ha, look at those morons
Ha ha ha ha, they do nothing but whine
And they're slow all the time
Look at those morons, never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind
We can leave them behind, while we're dumbing them down, we'll be robbing them blind
Ah Ah, morons don't matter at all.
No education, no informatioon
Morons are boring, ugly and small
They lower the tone, lets get rid of them all
Will to learn - gone away
Force fed garbage every day
We're the slaves of smarmy little, self important, petty little morons
Oxford - Cambridge - see how the other half live
Steer well clear of lazy little, filthy little, funny little morons
Ha ha ha ha, look at those morons
Ha ha ha ha, they're such terrible types
And they're not very bright - look at those morons
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
Let them fight every night, while they're missing the point, we can do what we like
Ah ah, I'm 60 and what have I got
I live in a warzone, surrounded by morons
Don't tell me I'm free when I'm not
Ah ah, abandon hope all who live here
We are the morons that you declared war on
Now everyone's living in fear
We're starving, it's something that needs to be said
We're starving, it's something that needs to be said
We're starving, starving, starving, starving, starving, starving, starving, starving
Morons can never escape from the fact, they can never escape and we hate you for that
We we're morons - but then again no, no, no!
| Morons (early version) | 5:33 | Originally issued on The Journey, it can also be found on Tilting The Mirror - Rarities (box set only). |
| Morons (live 29th April 2005) | (6:38) | This live version (recorded at the Nidaros Blues Festival, Trondheim Norway) was released on Bag Of Tricks (Vol 3) (box set only). |
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