{"id":224,"date":"2006-05-13T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:39:25","slug":"i-might-be-a-virus-on-your-pc-i-might-be-a-ghost-on-your-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/05\/13\/i-might-be-a-virus-on-your-pc-i-might-be-a-ghost-on-your-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"I might be a virus on your PC — I might be a ghost on your TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I<\/p>\n

As I mentioned when I posted the previous AYoS version of this song at the beginning of the year, I feel like, in a sense, I wrote it in collaboration with my late pal, Rick Routhier.<\/p>\n

Uh… after <\/span>he’d passed on.<\/p>\n

It is, after all, a song which has as its central metaphor reincarnation and endless love. So it’s somehow fitting…<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I’m taking credit for the line about virus-on-your-pc, since Rick was one of those people who had only recently started to feel guilty about not caring about computers when he died after a short, then-mysterious illness in the early 90s. (We later found he had had an undiagnosed case of cancer.) But it’s entirely possible he came back with the ghost-on-your-TV line — which is, after all, kinda nice in a formalist sort of way.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure Rick believed in reincarnation. I’m not so sure I do — Rick’s postmortal contributions to this song notwithstanding. After all, a ghostly interaction does not<\/span> in itself support the idea of reincarnation. Let’s be realisitc, here.<\/p>\n

Anyhow…<\/span><\/p>\n\n

previous AYoS verision<\/a>
\nJanuary 17, 2006
\n
\n<\/span><\/span>I Might Be the Wind<\/span><\/p>\n

I might be this and I might be that
\nI might be a success or I might be flat
\nI might be them, I might be you
\nI might be the desert or the sky so blue<\/p>\n

but wherever I go, whatever I do<\/span>
\nI’ll never, ever stop loving you<\/span><\/p>\n

I might be the wind, I might be the sea
\nI might be deep space for eternity
\nI might be a dog, I might be a cat
\nI might be the chair, where sharon stone sat<\/p>\n

but wherever I go, whatever I do<\/span>
\nI’ll never, ever stop loving you<\/span><\/p>\n

I might be a virus in your PC
\nI might be a ghost on your TV
\nI might be a shadow where no shadow should
\nor a whisper from nowhere
\nthat you almost understood<\/p>\n

but wherever I go, whatever I do<\/span>
\nI’ll never, ever stop loving you<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned when I posted the previous AYoS version of this song at the beginning of the year, I feel like, in a sense, I wrote it in collaboration with my late pal, Rick Routhier. Uh… after he’d passed on. It is, after all, a song which has as its central metaphor reincarnation and […]<\/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":[352,841,840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}