Story Behind The Song

When I first read Alice in wonderland my favorite characters where the mad hatter and his friends. They were different and certainly mad, yet they were together drinking tea and embracing each others peculiarities. Wouldn't the world be a better place, if we would do this? Instead of condemning each other for our skin color, beliefs, who we love or politics we would embrace diversity and celebrate it in friendship. This is the idea that made me write 'We are all mad here'. A song for everyone, that invites you to be a part of a colorful happy crowd that doesn't judges or discriminates you. But often our attempts for equality and unity end in more division and hatred. That's why I sing "violence is no solution and this is not a revolution, just a song". This song doesn't blame any one, it's not some kind of lesson for people that aren't tolerant. It's just a song about the beauty of being allowed to be different. Because after all, we are all mad here anyway, and that's ok.

Song Description

"We are all Mad Here" is a happy song with an important message : it doesn't matter where you come from, who you love, who you believe in... nothing matters because we are all mad here anyway. Our differences shouldn't divide us they should bring us together. In the spirit of the Mad Hatter and his friends it invites us to celebrate diversity together. The song has a circus kind of pop/rock feeling with a bit of Sgt. Pepper flair to it. It starts with a trumpet lick and stays on a continuous beat that makes you dance. Spiced with a few sound effects and trumpet fills it develops with dense sound structure and peaks in a b sections with lot of vocals taking the madness to the end of the song.

Lyrics

It doesn't matter where you come from,
or in which body you think you belong,
It doesn't matter what clothes you put on,
nothing matters in this song.
We don't care about the color of your skin,
or the religion you believe in,
It's not important with who you've been,
the door is open, come and sing.

We're all mad here, anyway,
We are all mad here, in different ways.

Some are mad about money,
some are crazy and funny,
Not strange, just unique,
we are all mad differently.
Some are mad about boys,
some are mad about girls,
Some are mad enough to hate the world,
some are mad about work.

We're all mad here, anyway,
We are all mad here, in beautiful ways.

Violence is no solution, and this not a revolution, just a song,
(Shine, the world is wonderland)
And your madness isn't worse than mine, let us all be mad and we'll be fine, sing along.
(When we all, go hand in hand)
Violence is no solution, and this not a revolution, just a song,
(Shine, the world is wonderland)

We are all mad here, and that's ok.