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	<title>breakup &#8211; A Year of Songs</title>
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		<title>There&#8217;s only one real forever&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s only one real forever,&#8221; he was saying, though he hoped she wasn&#8217;t listening. And we passed that about 100 miles ago, he thought. But he didn&#8217;t say it. It was someplace in Santa Maria County, the way he figured it. The place where they both realized the other knew it was over, no matter [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Castles in the sky&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/09/02/castles-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A thousand dreams. Gone, like that. All those things they&#8217;d planned, lying awake, moonlight through the window, in each other&#8217;s arms. The places they&#8217;d go. The things they&#8217;d do. The projects they&#8217;d pursue together. The dreams. Gone. He knew in an instant they were as gone as though they&#8217;d never been. Sometimes when people break [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Those blues will sit on your head&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/06/20/those-blues-will-sit-on-your-head/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Special Feature: Feelin&#8217; post-literate? Listen to the audio version of today&#8217;s commentary&#8230; http://www.archive.org/download/TkMajor-Ayos-2007-06-20Commentary/2007-06-20-AYoS-Commentary.mp3 (music below) &#160; Ah&#8230; The big kiss off&#8230; engine of ten thousand songs. A veritable cornerstone of pop music. Topic of some of the 60&#8217;s best rock and pop writers: your Dylans, your Stones, your Lennons and your McCartneys, et al. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All right&#8230; Why a duck?</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/11/12/all-right-why-a-duck/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I walked along the aqueduct just before the dawn. The sun looked old and tired as it came up but at least now the night is gone&#8230; &#160; The old college try. One last night of talking. Crying. Yelling, maybe. Holding each other quietly. And then walking out into the morning air and knowing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forget About the Moon, Forget About the Stars</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/02/11/forget-about-the-moon-forget-about-the-stars/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When he woke up on Easter morning she was lying next to him, on her side, her angled arm propping her head as she must have been watching him sleep. She leaned over and kissed him, over and over, across his face until he pushed her away. She laughed, jumped up and ran out into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Now, Baby, It&#8217;s Never [v.2]</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/02/10/now-baby-its-never-v-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Still spun from the creative frenzy of writing a new song, I&#8217;ll be taking a break from my normal scribbling, here, so that I can decompress a bit and blab about a new toy that may be of interest to some of you.] http://www.archive.org/download/Now_Baby_Its_Never_v.2/AYoS20060209_Now_Baby_Its_Never.mp3 previous AYoS version The ever-minimal AYoS project ratchets up its minimalist [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Now, Baby, It&#8217;s Never</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/12/11/now-baby-its-never/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;ve got a sixth sense for when things are over. Little things like the suitcase on the lawn, changed locks, restraining orders. There are subtle signs a man of the world can pick up. Call it a vibe if you will. One of those things is the icey kiss. For my generation, one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hasta la Vista, M&#8217;Cheri</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/11/04/hasta-la-vista-mcheri/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Breaking up&#8230; sometimes it&#8217;s hard to do, sure. Still, often enough, it produces a grim satisfaction. Like finally getting around to pulling that ol&#8217; stump out in back of the shed or cleaning the attic or finally having the doc take care of that boil on your&#8230; Anyhow, the title of this ditty is a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not One of Those Dreams</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/10/09/not-one-of-those-dreams/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  This was the third of three songs I came up with on a rainy day in Mexico I wrote about here a few weeks ago. (That would be in the Looking for Trouble post. The second song was There Ain&#8217;t No Heart In My Heart No More, though I didn&#8217;t think to mention it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Looking for Trouble</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/09/27/looking-for-trouble/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was a rainy Saturday in the early summer of 1981. I was sitting on a wooden chair at the edge of a storm-roiled sea outside a little, rundown motel a half hour north of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico. The sea spray mixed with a drizzle that left a thick salt film on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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