View Single Post
Old 06-19-2006, 12:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
Noahfingway
Senior Member
 
Noahfingway's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Under the freeway bridge.
Posts: 443
Quote:
Originally Posted by william
I never got the point of making a song like 'Short People'
Short People got no reason
To live

They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

It's a low-point in his career.
He always explained it as satire. A ridiculous set of claims on which to base discrimination if you will. Stereotyping certain traits by way of ridiculing others. Things you have no control over. Not truly as an insult of people of diminutive stature.
(Offline)   Reply With Quote