{"id":14,"date":"2005-09-30T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:20:54","slug":"when-ashley-said-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/09\/30\/when-ashley-said-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"When Ashley Said Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/span>t’s another scorcher here in south Cali… not as oppressive, maybe, as yesterday — unless you’re foolish enough to decide to catch up with your quixotic blog\/podcast (I know, I know,<\/span> all blogs are quixotic. I’ll go one better, all communication is quixotic. But it’s too stinkin’ hot to argue about engines of futility… Where was I?<\/span>) …not as oppressive unless you close all the windows, trying to shut out neighborhood noise to better please your audience (that would be you, noble and perhaps imaginary reader).<\/p>\n

The lyrics, I think, are more or less self-explanatory. It started off heading towards being a catalog song (a bunch of girl’s names strung together with oneliners about them) but I’m not a fan of the form and diverted it to a general discourse on the nature of love… at least as it relates to simple-minded pop songs.<\/p>\n

I wanted an old-timey kind of sound so I used my 3\/4 sized spanish guitar that I bought for $50 at a music superstore. It’s my go-everywhere guitar. I was going for a small, cheap <\/span>sound — and I think I nailed it.<\/p>\n\n

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When Ashley Said Goodbye<\/span><\/p>\n

Amber said hello when Ashley said good-bye
\nI said hold on but there’s no wondering why
\nwhen love wants in, love can knock down yer door<\/p>\n

I said Amber, I think this is forever
\nshe said baby you’re yanking on my tether
\nwhen all is said and done love will even up the score<\/p>\n

Love will fool ya — love can kill ya<\/span>
\nLove is all that love can give ya<\/span>
\nand still you keep coming back for more <\/span><\/p>\n

Love is funny — love is cruel
\nLove’ll make Einstein act just like a fool
\nLove’ll make a tomcat dive in-a swimin pool<\/p>\n

All these toys all these games
\nall these pretty dollhouses going up in flames
\nif you play around enough you know you’re gonna get burned<\/p>\n

Love will fool ya — love can kill ya<\/span>
\nLove is all that love can give ya<\/span>
\nand still you keep coming back for more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s another scorcher here in south Cali… not as oppressive, maybe, as yesterday — unless you’re foolish enough to decide to catch up with your quixotic blog\/podcast (I know, I know, all blogs are quixotic. I’ll go one better, all communication is quixotic. But it’s too stinkin’ hot to argue about engines of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[64,94,74,63,40,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}