{"id":13,"date":"2005-09-28T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=13"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:28:16","slug":"kristin-was-never-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/09\/28\/kristin-was-never-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristin (Was Never Here)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’s too hot to think, here… it’s certainly too hot to strap on a pair of headphones. I recorded this last week and put it aside for just such an occasion.<\/p>\n

Kristin <\/span>was written for an album of “girl name songs” back in 1996, The Barista Cycle<\/span>. The women behind the names that inspired the songs were real — they worked at my favorite coffee shop<\/a> — but the songs and the girls in them were entirely fictional. (Still it made for a few awkard moments with a couple of boyfriends and husbands.)<\/p>\n

AYoS acoustic version:<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Kristin_Was_Never_Here\/AYoS20050928_TKMajor___KristinWasNeverHere.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
\n Barista Cycle version:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Kristin_Was_Never_Here_rock_version\/TK_Major__Kristin_rock.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
\nKristin Was Never Here <\/span><\/p>\n

Kristin was never here
\nYou didn’t see her slip in the back way
\nYou didn’st see her float up the stairs
\nYou didn’t see her perfect hand on my door
\nBecause Kristin was never here<\/em><\/p>\n

She loves me twice as much as him
\nLord, I know that’s true
\nbut she loves those kids 10000 times more
\nand, man, I know that too<\/p>\n

Nothing adds up or works out right
\nNothing’s gonna make it so
\nI’ve run the numbers a million times
\nat the bottom line I gotta go<\/p>\n

Kristin was never here…<\/em><\/p>\n

one last time I swear we only kissed
\nfor a moment there were only two
\neternity is where parallel lines meet
\nand all lies are true
\n
\nYou didn’t see her slip in the back way
\nYou didn’st see her float up the stairs
\nYou didn’t see her perfect hand on my door
\nBecause Kristin was never here<\/em><\/p>\n

____________<\/p>\n

Did I mention it’s hot here? Stinking hot. Melting plastic hot.<\/p>\n

Hot, hot, hot.<\/p>\n

Hot.<\/p>\n

(And, yes, my Riverside and San Berdoo brothers and sisters — I know <\/span>I don’t know the meaning of the word.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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