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	<title>drinking &#8211; A Year of Songs</title>
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		<title>Dry Land Was Just a Dream</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2013/03/24/dry-land-was-just-a-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can see the river from the place where he drowned whisky after whisky until dry land was just a wistful dream someplace between proud and plowed under. He felt like seaweed pulled loose trapped in a current that swirled ever farther to sea. (C)2013, TK Major]]></description>
		
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		<title>Something broken&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something reassuring and familiar and &#8212; get this &#8212; liberating &#8212; in a hangover. That&#8217;s the way I used to feel. Sometimes, even a decade and a half later, waking up sluggish (musta fell asleep with my face in the pillow again) I&#8217;ll grasp my coffee mug with the sort of grimly firm grip [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Man in the Bottle</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/03/30/man-in-the-bottle/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suppose you ought to know you&#8217;re in trouble when you realize you consider your daily dive into the soothing depths of the bottle to be somehow heroic. But the truth is that I was not just a willful and enthusiastic drunk, I didn&#8217;t just romanticize drunken nescience &#8212; I exulted it as somehow emblematic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Christmas is different&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/12/25/this-christmas-is-different/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Christmas 1983 was stormy and wet. One storm would blow out and another would be on its heels. The occasional shaft of sunlight poking through the clouds seemed like a miraculous reassurance. It was wet and I was soggy most of the time. In those days I had to use a cane because of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Caviar and champagne are fun but&#8230; [All I Need Is the Sun]</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/03/13/caviar-and-champagne-are-fun-but-all-i-need-is-the-sun/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few moments in the sun. What are they worth? To a banker? To a bum? I&#8217;ve known a lot of bums who claimed to have been somebody, once. And, for sure, some of them were just high. But after some living, I began to see that sometimes you need a little altitude before your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All I Need Is the Sun</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/11/24/all-i-need-is-the-sun/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A thanksgiving song. I&#8217;m at that point in my life when I&#8217;m mostly beyond being afraid for myself, but like anyone, I have my moments of darkness and doubt. When things are darkest&#8230; I count my blessings. It&#8217;s a tactic that not only dovetails nicely with my innate perversity, but which has served me well [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another Dead Soldier (in My War on Alcohol)</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/11/06/another-dead-soldier-in-my-war-on-alcohol/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Okay&#8230; as promised, here&#8217;s a song that recombines verses from yesterday&#8217;s Blue Recollection with a similarly themed set of lyrics. (And there&#8217;s yet another song that incorporates some of the lyrics from this song &#8212; but it won&#8217;t likely be in AYoS because of a significant f-word problem &#8212; it&#8217;s in the title, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blue Recollection</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/11/05/blue-recollection/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wake up at nite but it ain&#8217;t because of you Oh yeah I wake up at nite but it sure ain&#8217;t because of you I&#8217;m just listening to the plaster crack and the clock tick in the next guy&#8217;s room Ran that through the Babelfish translator and came up with this: Despierto en la [&#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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