ESSC24 Song 10: Condoner of the Vile - Written by Philip Brindley - England

EUROVISION SAFEGUARDING SONG CONTEST 2024

With just 5 acts to come its time to slow things down so our daytime audience can get to understand the world around them; and what better way to start than with The Outro to this years number one film 'The Winter Isle' (in 20 years time).

A very moving ballad about the fight between good and evil in the countryside to highlight what Albert Einstein once said,

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

Song 10:

Condoner of the Vile

Goodbye, Mapton Shire

Though I never knew you at all

 You had no grace to hold yourself

When lives were torn apart

They crawled into their limestone house

As the TV whispered into their brain

That set them on the treadmill

And they made them lose their game

And it seems to me they lived their life

Like a condoner of the vile 

Always knowing who rents out their kids

 When they needed another car

 I knew I would have liked to live there 

When I was just a kid 

But their ethics burned out long before 

Our ravers ever will 

Loneliness was tough 

The hardest role I ever played 

Maptonhire called upon the phoenix star 

Pain relieved by pleasure was the only price he paid 

Even when they were trialled 

Oh, how the lawyers hounded him 

All the police had to say was 

We’ve driven around the area in the nude 

And it seems to me they lived their life 

Like a condoner of the vile 

knowing exactly who to call up 

When down to their last 100 grand 

And I wouldn't have liked to know you 

since I was just a kid

As your ethics burned out long before

Our ravers ever will

Goodbye, Mapton Shire

You know I couldn’t stand you all

As you had no grace to hold yourself

Whilst lives around you were torn apart

So goodbye, you Vileophiles

From the raver saving your kids for 30 years

Who see you as nothing more than anti-sexual

Nothing less than a Jimmy Saville fan

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a condoner of the vile

Always knowing who to call up

When you wanted another car

And I would’ve liked to live there

But I was just a kid

Your ethics burned out long before

Our ravers ever will 

And I would’ve liked to live there

But I was just a kid

Your ethics burned out long before

Our ravers ever will