{"id":140,"date":"2006-01-31T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=140"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:08:39","slug":"baby-said-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/01\/31\/baby-said-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Said [part 2]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby
\nT<\/span>he question of just who “Baby” is has come up before and less than careful readers will be forgiven if they missed my suggestion that Baby is, to some extent, a composite of ex-girlfriends (mine and OP’s) with a few of my own personality fragments thrown into the mix, too. If you’re trying to create an antiheroine of mythic proportions, you have to draw on everything you have. And then some. Think a little bit Mata Hari and a little bit Janis Joplin as played by… Oh, wait a second… <\/span>I was slipping into the screenplay pitch.<\/p>\n

But, really, I have <\/span>been toying with the idea of tying some of the Baby songs together with a flimsy excuse for a plot and I may <\/span>sketch something out a bit later in A Year of Songs.<\/p>\n

Sort of a blog opera<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I’m not the first to come up with that phrase — but I’ve been doing a form of blog opera <\/span>for much of the last decade. Last year marked the tenth year of my music on the web — although the first download was an unlistenably lo-fi 17 second clip that took 2-1\/2 minutes to download.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve been posting music downloads and writing vignettes and backstories for the songs, usually combining text and download links with some kind of graphics.<\/p>\n

(I’ve toyed with video\/multimedia versions. It’s a whole lot of work.<\/span> More power to all you video artists and talented Flash animators. It’s all I can do to string a couple of semi-coherent sentences togther.)<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I’ve been doing this blog opera<\/span> thing for a long time but — now — <\/span>I have an irritatingly catchy name for it.<\/p>\n

The first two versions of Baby Said<\/span> appeared on AYoS on December 25, 2005<\/a>. With regard to this<\/span> version, for the record: yes, you are supposed to laugh. In fact, at this point in AYoS, if you ain’t laughin’ already, you better get that checked out.<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Baby_Said_AYoS_v.3\/20060130_Baby_Saidv3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Baby Said<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

baby said she’d love me
\nshe’d always stand beside me
\nbaby lied . . . but that’s all right
\nbaby said forever
\nbaby said never say goodby
\nshe left that night<\/p>\n

baby said a lot of things a
\nfool wouldn’t buy
\nshe got caught a thousand times
\nI sorta let it slide
\nbaby said she loved me
\nI think she thought she did
\nbaby said a lot of things
\nshe was such a crazy kid…<\/p>\n

baby said honey
\nyou ain’t got no money
\nI like that so
\nmy old man’s made of loot
\nand it don’t buy no truth
\nand Baby knows<\/p>\n

baby said a lot of things
\nit was such a crazy time
\nBaby said remember
\ncause I’ll see you when you die
\nbaby said its over
\nover and over again
\nbaby said forever and then we
\njust begin again<\/p>\n

baby said save me
\nsometimes I think I’m crazy
\nShe’d say anything–even the truth
\nBut once you surrendered
\nit really was forever and
\nthere wouldn’t be nothing anyone could ever do<\/p>\n

baby said a lot of things a
\nfool wouldn’t buy
\nshe got caught a thousand times
\nI sorta let it slide
\nbaby said she loved me
\nI think she thought she did
\nbaby said a lot of things
\nshe was such a crazy kid…<\/p>\n

(C)1991, 2000, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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