"Excuse me, do you have a problem with me? Belligerent, unreasonable, and thoroughly snidey! I used to visit a Christian bookshop in Newcastle and the guy behind the counter always avoided looking at me or acknowledging my presence but was always civil to other customers. "Was it the cut of my cloth? The angle of my face?" I wanted to broaden the song and have it as everyman questioning authority. There's mention of Galileo who was apparently locked in a room with a voice speaking through a hole in the wall constantly repeating the word confess, confess, confess ... The song ends in a soul supermarket with the same man standing at the checkout ... waiting for me like the grim reaper. Billy liar and Walter Mitty speak for themselves I think. References to the two film characters. Are taste and belief the same thing? Nah." Patrick Snape.
lyrics
Excuse me, do you have a problem with me?
I see you speaking to people on ignore
Nodding and smiling to the biggest bore
Am I too uncivil for your unaquired taste?
A blot on the margins of your space of waste
Excuse me, do you have a problem with me?
You’ve had my cash my pin number too
You’ve never had to take an I.O.U
I’ve bought your books of conscience and faith
Is it the cut of my cloth or the angle of my face?
Excuse me, do you have a problem with me?
Well I fled the sleepy suburbs
For the vibrant inner city
I felt like Billy Liar
And I looked like Walter Mitty
But I’d never turn my back, on my sister or brother
I’d walk naked through Hell, and never run for cover
Excuse me, do you have a problem with me?
The Cathedral’s standing beside the sandwich bar
Taste and belief are on a same par
I’m pushing through the aisles in the Soul Supermarket
You’re standing at the checkout and I feel like a target
Excuse me, do you have a problem with me?
Confess, confess, you know it’s for the best
Galileo, confess, confess, you know it’s for the best!
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