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Women's Groups "Sick and Tired" of Clapton
On his new album, Pilgrim, the legendary British guitarist sings a little ditty called "Sick and Tired," which includes the lyrics:
Lord, I'm sick and tired, baby,
Sick and tired of the way you carry on.
You can pack up all of your things, baby;
Hit the road, get out of here, be gone...
I'm gonna get me a shotgun, baby,
Keep it stashed behind the bedroom door.
I may have to blow your brains out, baby,
Then you won't bother me no more.
Seems women's groups are, well, sick and tired of "Sick and Tired," ticked off at the song's supposed misogynistic sentiments.
"This is 1998. Hate speech against women or people is not okay," says Stacey Kabat, a self-professed Clapton fan and executive director of Peace at Home, a Boston shelter for battered women.
Eric Clapton, "Sick and Tired"
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Adds Leonard Zakim, director of Boston's Anti-Defamation League: "It's disturbing to all of us Clapton fans. In this day and age, with domestic violence as prevalent as it is, the idea of his writing a song like that is horrible. Especially after the tragedy of his own son's death." (Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, died in 1991 when he fell from an open window. The guitarist wrote "Tears in Heaven" in his son's memory.)
Together, Kabat and Zakim have petitioned Clapton and his label, Reprise, to reissue the song with amended lyrics and donate some proceeds to charity.
But so far, Clapton's camp has been unapologetic for "Sick and Tired." His spokeswoman, Ronnie Lippin, claims the song, cowritten by Clapton and producer Simon Climie, is merely in the tradition of blues, a genre seeped in violence. She calls the brouhaha over the lyrics "a tempest in a teapot."
Although Slowhand himself has yet to chime in with his two cents on the budding controversy, he's refrained from performing "Sick and Tired" in concert since the complaints began.
When asked by the Boston Globe whether Clapton dropped the tune because of the protests, Lippin answered: "An emphatic 'no'."
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