{"id":199,"date":"2006-03-30T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=199"},"modified":"2018-04-08T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T17:04:15","slug":"a-betrayal-of-biblical-proportions-burning-and-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/03\/30\/a-betrayal-of-biblical-proportions-burning-and-bitter\/","title":{"rendered":"A betrayal of Biblical proportions [Burning and Bitter]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Burning<\/p>\n

I<\/span>t’s all in the backstory, babe.<\/p>\n

You’d think this song was about a betrayal of Biblical proportions, a temptress so demonic, yet so enticing as to destroy any fool with the temerity to cast a glance her way.<\/p>\n

But as I pointed out when I posted a much different (and essentially somewhat silly) version back on December 4th, the young woman I had recently broken up with when I wrote this song was a sweet and level-headed mother of two young girls who simply wanted me to decide what I wanted. When I wouldn’t — or couldn’t — give her an answer, she moved on.<\/p>\n

But I was a dumb ass kid, a few years younger than her, a crummy job but big dreams of adventure. The last thing on earth I thought I wanted was responsibility.<\/p>\n

Story of my life.<\/p>\n\n

previous AYoS version<\/a> (Dec 4)<\/p>\n

Burning and Bitter<\/span><\/p>\n

Burning and bitter
\nare my thoughts tonight
\nI can taste the poison
\nof the lies I heard tonight
\nI have seen my soul
\nlike the falcon
\nyou gunned down in flight
\nYou’re a sorceress
\nyou’re a temptress
\nbut you’re oh
\nso sweet in the night<\/p>\n

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

It’s all in the backstory, babe. You’d think this song was about a betrayal of Biblical proportions, a temptress so demonic, yet so enticing as to destroy any fool with the temerity to cast a glance her way. But as I pointed out when I posted a much different (and essentially somewhat silly) version back […]<\/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":[878,221,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}