Stanley Odd - Son I Voted Yes

Son I just wrote this I thought you might like to know That I chose to vote Yes 'Cause a Yes vote provided hope What the future's holdin' No-one can rightly know Was tired of the same old script And what's next only time will show I knew you'd ask at some stage I look forward to us talking about it one day So here's the story of a hopeful guess Cause you're part of the reason that I voted yes When I was your age, we had some discontent winters Like in the fairy tales there was a Witch of Westminster With the power and the contrast of a comic book villain She's passed away now but we didn't say good riddance 'Cause by the time she passed she was a feeble old lady Who forgot what she was doing when she was going places You should always treat people how you'd like to be treated 'Cause the hurt and anger she left is deep seated In school they stopped our free milk It could be said in a wider context they stopped our free will You can't always separate feelings from cold facts From the school bus I read graffiti saying 'No Poll Tax' See in 1979 people voted to control their own reality But it didn't happen on a technicality Then in 1997 they said it wouldn't work But they supposed letting us try couldn't hurt Now in 2014 they asked the question 'Do you want to be independent?' I remember thinking, if we didn't answer Yes You could be 18 before they'd ask us again Son I just wrote this This isn't about the colour of skin Or where you were born, or who you call kin It's about pure and simple geography And caring for everyone responsibly It's about people facing poverty with immunity And building and supporting our communities Too many people want off the path we're following It's time to change how we 'do' politics Responsibility and independence Leading by example of the messages we're sendin' Character traits we hope for our kids one day So why wouldn't we want it for our country? See the older you get the less you see things in black and white And I'm just trying to do what I think is right Just simply voting by Yes, the problem isn't solved But you can't change the world taking no risks at all Spin Doctors twisted strands of stories to control the plots Like Rumpelstiltskin spinning gold from straw Weaving threads like Charlotte's spider web And the trolls under the bridge became Cybermen In a time of recession, food banks and destitution Worldwide turmoil with very little resolution Violence and terror as press wizards cast their best illusions We were part of a peaceful revolution Son I just wrote this Some said we had our heads controlled by our hearts But you make decisions with both by and large As for those felt their hearts were controlled by their heads They told the story of the goose that laid the golden egg Meaning that sticking as we are was the safest bet Which is basically succumbing to playground threats And to me that just wasn't making sense 'Cause there's the possibility for real change instead They say yir home's where yir heart is From Oor Wullie's shed to Doctor Who's Tardis But it's also true that yir hearts where yir home is And it won't be that long 'til you're grown with yir own kids Of course I had reservations, who didn't? Despite the white paper, Scotland's future isn't written It's wrong that a politician can only be the shepherd or the wolf Cause that way they either want you for your flesh or for your wool The biggest triumph of the 21st century state Was to convince us that having a dream is a cliché 1% of the world has 90% of the wealth And this system says to step on folks while helping yirself I hope you're hearing these thoughts with amazement And inequity is consigned to history pages I don't want to see another lost generation Rioting, frustrated and cross with their parents Son I just wrote this I thought you might like to know That I chose to vote Yes 'Cause a Yes vote provided hope What the future's holdin' No-one can rightly know Was tired of the same old script And what's next only time will show

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