DontRunMeOver

You definitely got the wrong end of the songwriting stick there MJ.

I'm still wondering why I'm so miserably failing to get the point across, as you're definitely not the first person to misinterpret the idea. One of my friends thought it was meant to be having a go at second generations immigrants from former colonies who use the NHS, get schooled in the UK then turn all terrorist on us (that's not what I'm going to write about) and MJ thinks that its some guilt-trip based on feeling bad about being rich. Its neither of those.

Does anybody get what I'm getting at? Its basically saying that people who say they're ashamed that such things happened which have led to the wealth they enjoy today are twits, because although they don't like to accept it, without that **** having happened, they'd probably be drinking muddy water and subsistance farming today. And if they think they'd be happier that way, then they're amazingly naive. I prefer to try to put harsh realities, rather than pious sentiments, into songs...

Plus, I think its mainly the western documentary makers who end up making a lot of people in 3rd world countries look like sappy losers, while they're trying to make everybody feel sorry for them.

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