Geordie, I think being a protest song will limit you from any major amount of radio play even without the "Bollocks" word. (that's what I meant when I said in my first post, "...any station that plays 'protest'...songs.)

If it's a good song, and if "Bollocks" works, then go for it, but aim it to the market that will accept it. You might, depending on the song and the cut, have success at college radio, so called "undergound" radio, americana, or internet radio. So if the word works and the song is diminshed if you remove it, then you simply shouldn't remove it anyway.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

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