{"id":1319,"date":"2010-08-31T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2010-08-31T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T19:59:19","slug":"this-desert-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/1319","title":{"rendered":"This Desert Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find I have less and less to say with my own voice.  The wide applicability of that comment is hard to underestimate.  Most music is dying for me, but the few songs that aren&#8217;t say everything I could possibly have to say at this point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All my friends got flowers in their eyes<br \/>\nbut I got none this season<br \/>\nall of last year\u2019s blooms have gone and died<br \/>\ntime doesn\u2019t give a reason<br \/>\nhey baby do you ask yourself sometimes<br \/>\nwhat you need to be forgiven<br \/>\neverything that you ever done wrong<br \/>\nis the reason that I\u2019m driven<br \/>\nstraight to you<\/p>\n<p>Waiting here for you<br \/>\nwanting to tell you<br \/>\nhow I get my ends and my beginnings mixed up too<br \/>\njust the way you do<br \/>\nI thought if I told you<br \/>\nyou might want to stay for just another day<br \/>\nor two<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s just like answers<br \/>\nthat come in small packages that go in the mail)<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for the trains that just never come<br \/>\nbeginning to believe in<br \/>\nthe disappearing nature of<br \/>\nthe people we have been<br \/>\nwe have begun to change<br \/>\ninto the worst kind of people<br \/>\nso unkind<br \/>\noh apologies<br \/>\nno apologies<br \/>\nthis apology<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t describe<br \/>\nthe way<br \/>\nit feels<br \/>\nto feel<br \/>\nfor you<\/p>\n<p>Waiting here for you<br \/>\nwanting to tell you<br \/>\nhow I find myself<br \/>\nslowly disappearing too<br \/>\njust the way you do<br \/>\nI thought if I told you<br \/>\nyou might want to help me to remain<br \/>\nwith you<\/p>\n<p>I just wanna stay for a little while<br \/>\nI wanna stay a little while<br \/>\noh come on come on come on come on<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a night life falling down on me<br \/>\nI just feel like a change<br \/>\nbeneath the sun in the summer a sea of flowers<br \/>\nwon\u2019t bloom<br \/>\nwithout the rain<br \/>\nbut oh this desert life<br \/>\nthis high life<br \/>\nhere at the dying end of the day<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t made for the scene, baby<br \/>\nbut I was made in this scene<br \/>\nbaby, it\u2019s just my way<br \/>\nI don\u2019t wanna go home alone<br \/>\nI wanna come on home to you<\/p>\n<p>Waiting here for you<br \/>\nwanting to tell you<br \/>\nhow I line my sky with all the silver I can use<br \/>\njust the way you do<br \/>\nI thought if I told you<br \/>\nyou might want to stay for just another day<br \/>\nor two<\/p>\n<p>(Isn\u2019t that just like<br \/>\ndisappearing into the sum of yourself<br \/>\nand the person you are disappearing into<br \/>\nit\u2019s like one plus one equals nothing at all<br \/>\none plus two equals nothing at all<br \/>\none plus me equals nothing at all<br \/>\none plus you equals one plus you equals you equals<br \/>\nyou and you and you and<br \/>\nnothing at all)<\/p>\n<p>-Counting Crows<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find I have less and less to say with my own voice. The wide applicability of that comment is hard to underestimate. Most music is dying for me, but the few songs that aren&#8217;t say everything I could possibly have to say at this point. All my friends got flowers in their eyes but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,9,33],"tags":[5,53,73],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-all-the-poets-became-rock-stars","category-the-long-tunnel","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-all-the-poets-became-rock-stars","tag-the-long-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}