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Quicksand Kerry - Don't Want To Choose

from Music Kept Me Sane: The Best of Quicksand Kerry 1998​-​2008 by Kerry JK

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Though I have spent a lot of time presenting as a girl, I realised early on that full transition was not my path - I often said that had I been born a girl I would probably have dressed as a boy. Though the term had yet to be popularised at that time, this is non-binary identity in a nutshell.
A question that sometimes gets asked in trans forums is, "If you could only express one gender ever, which could you live without?". Personally I would 1) demand to know who is defining and policing this arrangement and 2) rebel on principle.

"Don't Want To Choose" is not only about gender identity, but every instance where you are forced into arbitrary choices to fit roles assigned by others. This is the first recording I made of the song, I later re-recorded it for the 2015 album "Songs From the Age of Human Error", which was in turn remixed for the 2017 EP "Only Robots Need To Think In Binary".

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It's been said so many times it has to be true
You can never have your cake and eat it up too
Well that may be so but I've still got to try
I want to have my cake, eat it, taste it, share it, love it
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose

You've got to hold fast, pin your colours to the mast
Don't change your game, stay the same as when they saw you last
Am I a boy or a girl?
How do I fit in this world?
Am I rich or poor, black or white, do I give up?
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose

Do you think that I'm sick 'cause I don't deny the feelings I have inside?
Do you think I'm a freak 'cause I don't want to find a safe place to run and hide?
Do you think I'm a coward 'cause I don't want to fight for your ignorance?
When did freedom become such a dirty word?

The world isn't black, the world isn't white
They try to tell me that it is but I know it isn't right
It's a world of many colours, so much wonderful stuff
One life per person really isn't enough
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose
I don't want to choose

Do you think that I'm sick 'cause I don't deny the feelings I have inside?
Do you think I'm a freak 'cause I don't want to find a safe place to run and hide?
Do you think I'm a coward 'cause I don't want to fight for your ignorance?
When did freedom become such a dirty word?

credits

from Music Kept Me Sane: The Best of Quicksand Kerry 1998​-​2008, track released January 5, 2007
Written, performed and produced by M P Jackson
2006

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Kerry JK Northampton, UK

Gender and genre fluid singer-songwriter producing songs of identity, isolation and defiance incorporating jazz, electronica, art rock, vocal looping, poetry and rock opera theatrics.

Be yourself, as yourself. There is no greater fulfilment, and no sweeter revenge.
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