{"id":274,"date":"2006-11-10T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=274"},"modified":"2015-10-30T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:40:25","slug":"up-against-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/11\/10\/up-against-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Up against the wall…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10,000[update<\/span> 2006-11-11 – mp3 content corrected]<\/span><\/p>\n

“The true revolutionary is guided by love.”
\n– Che Guevara<\/span><\/p>\n

Nah… it’s not one of those<\/span> up-against-the-wall things… but it’s that disconnect between the notorious phrase of itimidation, harrassment, and implicit death threat and a story of timeless, hopeless love that fired up my creative energies… not unlike how a chemical battery generates current, I suppose.<\/p>\n

You’ll notice that there’s some real ambiguity in these lyrics. I considered different ways to try to make the song less ambiguous — but each one seemed to diminish the song, rob it of power. So I left the words more or less the way they spilled out.<\/p>\n

You’ll have to figure out for yourself what goes on in this song…<\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a><\/p>\n

studio version<\/a> [soundclick]
\nMay 26, 2006<\/a>
\nOctober 31, 2005<\/a><\/p>\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":"

[update 2006-11-11 – mp3 content corrected] “The true revolutionary is guided by love.” – Che Guevara Nah… it’s not one of those up-against-the-wall things… but it’s that disconnect between the notorious phrase of itimidation, harrassment, and implicit death threat and a story of timeless, hopeless love that fired up my creative energies… not unlike how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[665,600,40,781,599,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}