Name: Right Thing
Channel: Woodstock Taylor
Description: Produced by John Peacock, Right Thing is taken from the EP Work (Alien Kabaret). It's about why we do things.

Right Thing

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Produced by John Peacock, Right Thing is taken from the EP Work (Alien Kabaret). It's about why we do things.

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Woodstock Taylor

Refreshingly different songs from a truly original critically acclaimed talent. ...a fine balance between rock/pop tradition and inventive lunacy! (GarageBand)

Seduced by your dirty blues and cheesy ballads, compulsive songwriter Woodstock Taylor is on a brief visit to Earth. For the past fifteen years or so she has been churning out an eclectic blend of strangely accessible tunes with proper lyrics. During that time she has had the chance to work with some people she really admires. A bit of a musical chameleon, she's been compared in the press to characters as diverse as Tom Waites, Kirsty MacColl, Edith Piaf, Michelle Shocked and Marianne Faithfull. Really she just sounds like Woodstock Taylor. Recent appearances include the CCA, Glasgow, the Borderline Theatre, Ayr, the Trowse Festival, Norfolk, Wickerman Festival, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh People's Festival, Craigmillar and the Arts For Life Festival, Prince's Street Gardens, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Based in Edinburgh, has a guitar, will travel.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #65

Peak in subgenre #19

Author

Woodstock Taylor

Rights

Woodstock Taylor

Uploaded

September 06, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Right Thing is my response to bureaucracy, among other things. As my brother-in-law says, things are usually not so much an intergalactic conspiracy as a series of cock-ups and minor justifications. It's also, obviously, about wondering why people do things. Big things or little things. We had loads of fun sampling mobile phones, keys and bits of paper to provide the sound colour on this one.

Lyrics

RIGHT THING
(for all the wrong reasons)
? Woodstock Taylor



Something's gotta give
Look at how we live
Everywhere you go they want another piece of you
So you keep fighting
Everything requires the proper paperwork
And you can't move because the place is always full
Of little people trying to do the right thing
For all the wrong reasons

Something's gotta give
Look at how we live
Every day the common round and daily task
Seem ever less inviting
What you started out to do got lost in the machinery
When someone with the best intentions
Thought they ought to try to do the right thing
For all the wrong reasons

Now ask yourself why you do what you do
What are you afraid of, and just who's controlling you?

Something's gotta give
Look at how we live
Whatever happened to communication?
Don't you find it frightening?
Nobody is honest just in case it's misinterpreted
So we just let the bad guys win 'cause we're too busy
Trying to do the right thing
For all the wrong reasons