{"id":199,"date":"2009-01-07T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:48:48","slug":"flowers-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/flowers-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower&#8217;s Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Someday the silver moon and I<br \/>\nWill go to Dreamland<br \/>\nI will close my eyes<br \/>\nAnd wake up there in Dreamland<br \/>\nTell me who will put flowers<br \/>\nOn a flower&#8217;s grave<br \/>\nWho will say a prayer<\/p>\n<p>Will I meet a China rose there<br \/>\nIn Dreamland<br \/>\nOr does love lie bleeding<br \/>\nIn Dreamland<br \/>\nAre these days forever and always<\/p>\n<p>And if we are to die tonight<br \/>\nIs there a moonlight up ahead<br \/>\nAnd if we are to die tonight<br \/>\nAnother rose will bloom<\/p>\n<p>For a faded rose<br \/>\nWill I be the one that you save<br \/>\nI love when it showers<br \/>\nBut no one puts flowers<br \/>\nOn a flower&#8217;s grave<\/p>\n<p>As one rose blooms and another will die<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always been that way<br \/>\nI remember the showers<br \/>\nBut no one puts flowers<br \/>\nOn a flower&#8217;s grave<\/p>\n<p>And if we are to die tonight<br \/>\nIs there a moonlight up ahead<br \/>\nI remember the showers<br \/>\nBut no one puts flowers<br \/>\nOn a flower&#8217;s grave<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tom Waits, <em>Alice<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll fully respond to this album later, because it deserves more time than a quick post, but this song in particular moves me. More and more I&#8217;m finding that my artistic vision follows Tom Waits. And I&#8217;m all right with that, honestly.<\/p>\n<p>(Lyrics taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwaitslibrary.com\">Tom Waits Library<\/a>. Annotated lyrics. Yes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday the silver moon and I Will go to Dreamland I will close my eyes And wake up there in Dreamland Tell me who will put flowers On a flower&#8217;s grave Who will say a prayer Will I meet a China rose there In Dreamland Or does love lie bleeding In Dreamland Are these days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[168,200,199],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-deep-and-enduring-sorrow","tag-tom-waits","tag-wonderful-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->