My Cool

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated

because they are human beings who cause to echo,

deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

James Baldwin

I was on those airport terminal busses when Tiago (guitarist for Tumi and the Volume) said "Yo sorry about Michael" my following disbelief seemed like playacting to all the people in the bus who had heard the night before or earlier that morning. We were on our way to Cape Town to do some sessions with the Dirty Skirts at the Redbull studios. That weekend I was listening to their Steller Bender album and got caught up on the last song of the album "soon you'll get home". The television was flashing a gang of Michael's countless singles and this is what came out.

Michael Jackson had 13 number one Billboard singles.

they were:

If you’ve ever wondered on your own

Where the fallen go, when the cock crows

It is not where the sun rose, a Rock With You below

A spot under shadows, where You Are Not Alone

Occupied cuz you got ghosts

That make you wacko, you find a way to control

And suppress the unrest so out burst the songs

And they love you for it, until tomorrow

The story breaks and the look on they face is horror

Cuz they thought you were brilliant not normal

Court room Thriller, you Beat It with a walk

To the moon, Smooth Criminal tortured in youth

Is it false? is it true? is this dude an alien?

Whose Bad if it’s all Human Nature?

Is he Black or White, how do they paint ya,

With the same shame Dirty Diana could relate to

Hail you yesterday and nail you later

The front page freak, the mystique we escape to

Til The Man In The Mirror is a stranger

That palace you reside in is looking like a manger

And a home, you gave the Earth Song,

All alone on your throne, with a life you never owned

SABC, CNN news report

Cc a friend his gone

And it Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough, annoyed

Billie Jean was my joint