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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Graham:
When it comes to opinions on anything, one man's briliant is another man's blah.
I can undetrstand it not lighting the room up at a writer's night.
I don't see any impact in this one at all.
It simply doesn't say anything that is going to change the world like message songs are aimed at doing.
It didn't make me think.
Me. I was doing it, I would lighten it up a bit. Pun intended. Make the out chorus something like.
In life he saw him tall and slim.
But in death truth finaly showed.
It took a mobile crane, and an eighteen wheeler.
To get his funeral on the road.

After all. Everybody knows fat people are really jolly old souls and just love to have a laugh at their own expense.
Graham

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Hi Graham, I totally agree that any given song is not going to appeal to everyone but I don't see how they could have missed the point by such a wide margin, even if they didn't like it. I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic with your comments about the 18 wheeler and the thing about fat people being jolly. I hope so...

I certainly don't think that my songs or songs I have a part in creating are going to appeal to everyone but I honestly don't see why some would be confused about the message here. Not people who want to be songwriters anyways.

As far as changing the world, I don't think this song has that aim. It's just an observation about how shallow some people can be and those who get it will understand, relate and reflect. It's certainly not going to change the minds of those who have a disdain for the obese.

Van

Van Borden
a.k.a. Buzz Grudge