{"id":15,"date":"2005-09-30T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=15"},"modified":"2018-11-17T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T03:26:03","slug":"spit-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/09\/30\/spit-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Spit in the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spit
\nI<\/span> wrote this song when I was working in a gas station in a very rough part of town. You might think, from the lyrics, that I was feeling small, myself, but, much to the contrary, I felt like I was on top of the world. I had a job. I had a car. I had a nice little house I was renting in a decent neighborhood. I had a beautiful, whip-smart girlfriend. And the people around my gas station, by and large, had nothing. So, in a sense, I was writing about myself.<\/p>\n\n

produced version<\/a> [dub mix – on Soundclick]<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Spit in the Ocean<\/span><\/p>\n

You must think you\u2019re oh so very
\nterribly important
\nwith your car, your house, your maid,
\nyour butler and your porters.<\/p>\n

But seen from the stars <\/span>
\nyou\u2019re the same as all of us are.<\/span>
\nAnd it might seem a queer notion<\/span>
\nbut we\u2019re all just spit <\/span>
\nin the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hop upon a plane
\nrun around the world
\nTokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin
\nand they’re all full of your kind of girl.<\/p>\n

You can have all the ones you want<\/span>
\nyou can play with people\u2019s lives.<\/span>
\nYou can have all the rope you want <\/span>
\nbut soon enough they expect that noose <\/span>
\nto be tied.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seen from above<\/span>
\njust another slightly balding head<\/span>
\na little bit of dandruff on the shoulders<\/span>
\nbut you\u2019ll be dead<\/span>
\nsoon enough, <\/span>anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hiding in your villa
\non the Dalmatian Coast.
\nYour blue ribbon Afghan hound at your feet
\nthe one that you prize the most.<\/p>\n

But your baby\u2019s got the rabies
\nand he\u2019s gonna bite your foot.
\nain\u2019t there an end to the indignities
\nthrough which a human being
\nmust be put.<\/p>\n

Seen from the stars<\/span>
\nJust another chunk of rock in space.<\/span>
\nlittle ones crawling about on it<\/span>
\nbut they\u2019ll be gone<\/span>
\nsoon enough<\/span>, anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

You must think you\u2019re oh so very
\nterribly important
\nwith your car, your house, your maid,
\nyour butler and your porters.<\/p>\n

But seen from the stars <\/span>
\n you\u2019re the same as all of us are.<\/span>
\n And it must seem a queer notion<\/span>
\n but we\u2019re all just spit <\/span>
\nin the ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n

(C) 1975, T.K. Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this song when I was working in a gas station in a very rough part of town. You might think, from the lyrics, that I was feeling small, myself, but, much to the contrary, I felt like I was on top of the world. I had a job. I had a car. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77,79,44,75,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}