{"id":233,"date":"2006-06-20T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=233"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:02:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:02:38","slug":"ill-keep-it-on-the-vcr-and-watch-it-over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/06\/20\/ill-keep-it-on-the-vcr-and-watch-it-over-and-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll keep it on the VCR and watch it over and over again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"...<\/p>\n

P<\/span>assive aggressive.<\/p>\n

I always thought that had a kind of cool sound, conjuring images of a leather jacketed hoodlum leaning against a lampost, the 24\/7 tug of jaded, world-weary amusement pulling his thin lips into a tight grin.<\/p>\n

But the guy in this song ain’t that kind of passive aggressive. He’s the real kind. In the backstory that’s evolved in my mind for this song since I wrote it in 1984, he’s drinking in the neighborhood dive, just like every night when he sees the paramedics in front of his house on the 11 o’clock news. When they haul his wife out under a sheet, followed by another body, this one with a familiar pair of worn cowboy boots he recognizes as his best friend’s, he mutters, “Damn junkies,” and keeps drinking.<\/p>\n

Passive aggressive.<\/span> I heard those words in anger a few times. I wish it could say it was a misdiagnosis.<\/p>\n

But, like my late father, my ex-girlfriends just keep getting smarter every day.<\/p>\n\n

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\n[full version (c.1994) on Soundclick feat. Jeff Turmes, sax | requires Flash]<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Someone Said Something<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone said something<\/span>
\nor I’d have never known<\/span>
\nSomeone said something<\/span>
\nand I never went home<\/span><\/p>\n

They found you In the arms of another man
\nthe needle still in your vein
\nYou finally transcended
\nNow you’re cheating on a higher plane<\/p>\n

Someone said something<\/span> . . .<\/p>\n

What are a few bad habits
\nbetween old friends?
\nYou were a junky and a trollop
\nbut I loved you to the end<\/p>\n

Someone said something<\/span> . .<\/p>\n

Policemen and photographers
\nand a local station’s mini-cam
\nI’ll keep it on the VCR
\nand watch it over and over again<\/p>\n

Someone said something<\/span>
\nor I’d have never known<\/span>
\nSomeone said something<\/span>
\nand I never went home<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1984, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passive aggressive. I always thought that had a kind of cool sound, conjuring images of a leather jacketed hoodlum leaning against a lampost, the 24\/7 tug of jaded, world-weary amusement pulling his thin lips into a tight grin. But the guy in this song ain’t that kind of passive aggressive. He’s the real kind. In […]<\/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":[221,405,104,812,686,835,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}