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Blacklisting

I wrote this song while driving home from work one evening.  To understand the song, you have to understand that “blacklisting” refers to the way most traditional Antivirus programs work – they have a list of “bad” software that isn’t allowed to run on your computer.  My company, CoreTrace, has a product called “Bouncer”, which takes the opposite approach, called (surprise, surprise) “whitelisting”.  Whitelisting is technology that says “if you aren’t on my list of authorized software, you can’t run”.  Learn more about it at our web site.

I recorded this song with the help of my talented brother-in-law, Dave.  Dave plays guitars and bass.  Note, as you listen, the benefits of having a good musician do most of the work for you.  I do the keyboards, vocals, and drum programming.  “Drum programming”, I call it.  Really it’s just “pick a drum track and drag it into the right place.”

A fine video of the song can be found here

©2010 Stephen G Brown

Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting is fine
I told myself all the lies about it
And you know I nearly lost my mind

Monday konfiker gets into my site
Quickly chaos ensues
If only I’d Bouncer I’d be alright
I wouldn’t be singing these blues

Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting ain’t bad
I told myself all the lies about it
And I lost everything that I had

Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting is fine
I told myself all the lies about it
And you know I nearly lost my mind

Monday konfiker gets into my site
Quickly chaos ensues
If only I’d Bouncer I’d be alright
I wouldn’t be singing these blues

Now I got no job
I’m a washed up, broken slob
And some kid who thinks he’s better than me
Did what I should have done
Brought in Bouncer and won
[jibberish]

Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting is fine
I told myself all the lies about it
And you know I nearly lost my mind

Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting is fine
Blacklisting’s okay
Blacklisting is fine

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