Life As A Tourist

Songs From The Age Of Human Error by Kerry JK
This one didn’t have a chorus until the very last minute.  The original concept was a series of related verses leading to a final conclusion, but once I actually recorded it the need for a more developed chorus section became apparent.
The second verse is a reference to some I encountered in the trans scene who seemed to treat crossdressing as a mission of conquest to demonstrate to their tomboyish girlfriends how to more closely resemble the perfect women they wished them to be, with predictably awful results for all concerned.  The third verse describes a scenario familiar to anyone who has lived in anywhere vaguely rural, where wealthy urbanites will arrive in pursuit of a Dornford Yates idea of country living with nought but contempt for any locals failing to fit the fantasy.

Never belonging, always passing through
What people say never matches what they do
Seems like everyone’s deluded except you
But how would you even know if that’s not true?

Dressed up to our true ideals
The golden image of the inner self
Scavenged costume and painted cake
So unwitting of our teenager mistakes
You despaired of the girls we saw
In their combats and boots
How can they so waste their femininity?
You so wanted to guide them
But I would have been them

Life as a tourist
Searching for the world supposed to be
On a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
I will be the perfect me, wait and see

City boy achieves his dream and buys his place in the country
But the locals won’t indulge his fantasy
He complains about the lack of respect
They show for their rustic heritage
Lord of the Mock Tudor Manor, knight of the Vorsprung Durch
And they hated him and mocked his name
And rightly so, because who’d like such a man that would patronise
But are we guilty of just the same behaviour?

Life as a tourist
Searching for the world supposed to be
Life as a tourist
Searching for the world supposed to be

On a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
I will be the perfect me, wait and see
On a spinning lump of stone somewhere far from home
I will be the perfect me, whatever I most want to be

Life as a tourist
Searching for the world supposed to be

Life as a tourist