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		<title>A Thousand Lies</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2015/09/14/countdown-to-the-never-before-never-again-ayos-10-year-anniverery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 01:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nine days from now, on the 2015 Autumnal Equinox, Wednesday, September 23, A Year of Songs will be 10 years old. After over 400 posts that included 300 songs &#8212; that were downloaded over a half million times from Archive.org &#8212; I admit, I had let the pace slack. OK, I put a landing page randomizer on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s easy to start thinking you&#8217;re&#8230; you know&#8230; somebody</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/04/04/its-easy-to-start-thinking-youre-you-know-somebody/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to lose your perspective in this world. It&#8217;s easy to start thinking you&#8217;re&#8230; you know&#8230; somebody. Even though, in the end, you will certainly be nobody. But, with the household staff buzzing around you like so many worker bees making things nice for the queen, it&#8217;s easy to forget that inside that Greek-columned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All Fools&#8217; Day</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/04/02/all-fools-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[3 newly recorded songs dedicated to The Fool&#8230; I told my self Life has no meaning I told myself I should stop dreaming I told myself I should stop being such a fool Three songs about three different kinds of fools&#8230; [and let me hasten to point out that while All Fool&#8217;s day caught me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Giving money to hookers and screwing your friends&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/03/07/giving-money-to-hookers-and-screwing-your-friends/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Gospel of Greed used to call it the Age of Me &#8212; but it isn&#8217;t just I. Honey, it&#8217;s them and thee&#8230; http://www.archive.org/download/TKMajor_GospelOfGreen_AYoS_20070305-2/2007-03-05-2_AYoS_Gospel_of_Greed.mp3 Internet Archive page for this recording previous AYoS versions Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Friday, March 17, 2006 Gospel of Greed It&#8217;s the Gospel of Greed used to call it the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coming to your hometown before too long&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/01/12/coming-to-your-hometown-before-too-long/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He never thought he&#8217;d be glad to see tanks rolling down Main Street. But after masked gunmen with machine guns and grenades killed the mayor and half the city council, he decided maybe martial law wasn&#8217;t so bad. The regional authority said it was the foreign fighters but the rumor spread quickly through town that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Should Stop Being Such a Fool</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/10/14/i-should-stop-being-such-a-fool/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Song Alert&#8230; Okay&#8230; not sure this song is really done, actually. But I&#8217;m tired of waiting for the last verse to correct itself, so I&#8217;m posting it, anyway, misgivings and all. As with any of my songs, no matter how long ago they were written, there&#8217;s a pretty good chance the music will evolve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shame</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/07/04/shame/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  You want to talk about desecrating the flag of the United States of America? How about making it a symbol around the world of rape, murder, corruption, greed, and wanton destruction? It&#8217;s apparently easy for some to say, The world is wrong and we are right&#8230; It rolls from their tongue. It&#8217;s second nature [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ain&#8217;t no place so low you can&#8217;t get there if you crawl&#8230; (Kingdom of Fools 3)</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/03/01/aint-no-place-so-low-you-cant-get-there-if-you-crawl-kingdom-of-fools-3/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kingdom of Fools was one of the first songs I posted last September at the beginning of A Year of Songs. I posted a new version not quite two weeks ago. It was a rush job. In more ways than one. The tempo was, shall we say, aggressive. My dissatisfaction with it must have been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ain&#8217;t no such thing as too high to fall&#8230; [Kingdom of Fools v.2]</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/02/19/aint-no-such-thing-as-too-high-to-fall-kingdom-of-fools-v-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There can only be one winner. It&#8217;s a zero zum game. The competition is fierce. Unexpected hardships are faced by all. Most will lose everything and be forgotten. Warriors will fall. Brave champions will lie in defeat. Some will face infamy and shame. But only one will emerge victorious. In the Kingdom of Fools&#8230; only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Have you embraced the beast? I see the mark is on your face&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/02/16/have-you-embraced-the-beast-i-see-the-mark-is-on-your-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I posted the previous version of this song in early December, I was careful to paint a picture of the troubled time in which it was written. I was concerned that the stridently polemical, confrontational lyrics might be taken out of the context of a time of US taxpayer funded death squads in Central [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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