{"id":235,"date":"2006-06-23T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=235"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:29:10","slug":"you-must-have-lied-to-me-then-why-cant-you-like-to-them-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/06\/23\/you-must-have-lied-to-me-then-why-cant-you-like-to-them-now\/","title":{"rendered":"You must have lied to me then — why can’t you like to them now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

W<\/span>ell, I never actually had an ex-girlfriend turn federal witness against me. Could still happen, I suppose… I got plenty of ex-‘s.<\/p>\n

But I always thought it was a great metaphor for a love-gone-wrong song.<\/p>\n

As I wrote on January 6 when I posted a different version of this song from the late 70s, the song was partially inspired by stories of Bill and Emily Harris and celebrity kidnap-victim-turned-urban-terrorist Patty Hearst.<\/p>\n\n

machine dog version<\/a><\/p>\n

GOVERNMENT WITNESS<\/p>\n

Someone’s been bleeding us
\na young man wake up each day old and tired
\nI got my gun and my silver bullets
\ngonna get me a government vampire<\/p>\n

Hanging on the chain link fence
\ngot my silver cross my Smith & Wesson .38
\nBut when they turn on the juice
\nI’m crucified on the electric gate<\/p>\n

If this is real life<\/span>
\nI guess I’ll get used to it<\/span>
\nI’ll be all right as<\/span>
\nsoon as I get over these electro-convulsive fits<\/span><\/p>\n

Shackled in my place
\ninside rthe federal courtroom dock
\nStaring at your face
\nfloating in the witness box<\/p>\n

You’re looking right through me
\njust like you never heard my name
\nbut you used to lay right next to me
\nin our little hideout by the lake<\/p>\n

If this is real life<\/span>
\nI suggest you get used to it<\/span>
\nYou’ll be all right<\/span>
\nas soon as you find a heart to fit that hole in your chest<\/span><\/p>\n

Governmewnt witness
\nwho would have dreamed you’d be a government witness
\nGovernment witness
\ngo ahead — deny you are a government witness<\/p>\n

You must have lied to me then
\nWhy can’t you lie to them now
\nWill you be lying to yourself
\nwhile I sweat it out in the death house — death house<\/p>\n

This is real life . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright 1980
\nTK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Well, I never actually had an ex-girlfriend turn federal witness against me. Could still happen, I suppose… I got plenty of ex-‘s. But I always thought it was a great metaphor for a love-gone-wrong song. As I wrote on January 6 when I posted a different version of this song from the late 70s, […]<\/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":[824,15,827,825,134,826],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}