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Background to Lyrics of Roadside Comedy
Written by Jimmy
Read a couple different articles about Afganistan and Iraq, of the various stories of British and American troops being blown up by IEDs. Some had been thru the same community on numerous occassions, some victims talked of having been thru road the day before giving out chocalates to the kids. So just tried to imagine one composite of this – looking thru the eyes of a soldier from the moment when the explosion happens to the second he is rescued. Thought he would go from the dust settling, to seeing the kids he had just been with returning to taunt him, to probably passing out welcoming death, to being pulled from sleep to rescue, unsure whether he wanted to be rescued. The comedy angle was to set up the tragedy of it all – that he doesn’t really know why he’s there other than as some horrible form of entertainment … Also wanted to set up a single line: ‘They’re finding me funnier in parts then the whole teen soldier trading candy to win their hearts.’ Just wanted to make the point that these are young heroes put into awful positions, where neither there or the local citizens understand why they are there.