{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-27T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:22:09","slug":"ive-seen-that-shining-light-one-too-many-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/05\/27\/ive-seen-that-shining-light-one-too-many-times\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve seen that shining light… one too many times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10,000
\nW<\/span>eren’t we just talking (however briefly) about Fate?<\/p>\n

Once you give causality an inch, it seems, like ice-nine, to take over your whole cosmology.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I’ve always thought dimestore metaphysics makes for great pop music and this song is a gesture in that direction, spun with a little ambiguous pronoun play.<\/p>\n\n

10,000 Years<\/span><\/p>\n

Up against the wall
\nthe moon was in her eyes
\nI felt her heart beat
\nI heard her sigh<\/p>\n

I touched her cheek
\na tear met my hand
\nI didn’t know it then
\nbut that tear fell to her plan<\/p>\n

10,000 years<\/span>
\nis not a day too long<\/span>
\nsince the world began<\/span>
\nI’ve been hangin round here<\/span>
\nwaiting for you to come along<\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen that shining light
\none too many times
\nI have heard the angels sing
\nwhile I riddled the devil’s rhymes<\/p>\n

I have seen your eyes
\nburn into my soul
\nI have seen the truth
\nand I will never again be whole<\/p>\n

10,000 years…<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d do it all again
\nand still come back for more
\nI know how it’s all gotta end
\nbut I’ll never know what it’s all for<\/p>\n

Until the end of time
\nthere’s not that long to go
\nI thought I knew heaven’s secrets
\nwhat the hell did I know?
\n
\n10,000 years
\nis not a day too long
\nsince the world began
\nI’ve been hangin round here
\nwaiting for you to come along<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weren’t we just talking (however briefly) about Fate? Once you give causality an inch, it seems, like ice-nine, to take over your whole cosmology. Anyhow, I’ve always thought dimestore metaphysics makes for great pop music and this song is a gesture in that direction, spun with a little ambiguous pronoun play. http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/10000_Years_v2_1\/20060526_10000_Years2.mp3 10,000 Years Up […]<\/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":[665,117,285,283,838,781,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}