{"id":280,"date":"2006-11-26T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:55:34","slug":"the-day-that-you-came-back-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/11\/26\/the-day-that-you-came-back-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The day that you came back to town…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thelma<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thelma Lou<\/p>\n

The day that you came back to town
\nhe thought he’d be seein’ you around
\nhe thought he could pick it up
\nwhere he put it down<\/p>\n

but he thought he’d treat you right this time
\njust like he dreamed about each night
\njust like he prayed he’d have the
\nbrains to do this time<\/p>\n\n


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

November 27, 2005 version<\/a>
\nFebruary 27, 2006, version<\/a><\/p>\n

Now he’ll never know <\/span>
\nwhy he ever let go of you<\/span>
\nThelma Lou<\/span>
\nhe dreamed he’d make it right <\/span>
\nbut none of those dreams <\/span>
\never did come true<\/span>
\nand now he just dreams of you<\/span>
\nit will always be Thelma Lou<\/span>
\nnothing anyone can do<\/span>
\nit will always be dreams of you<\/span>
\nThelma Lou <\/span><\/p>\n

Now he was just a nothing way back then
\nbut he couldn’t believe how you could pretend
\nnot to care about all the things you couldn’t have
\nif you stayed with him<\/p>\n

So he pushed himself hard just to get ahead
\nand he woke up one day in an empty bed
\nand he looked in the mirror and
\nhe realized the years — and you — had fled<\/p>\n

Now, he’ll never know why he ever let go…<\/span><\/p>\n

Well he always thought he’d get one last chance
\nbut all he got was one last dance
\nas your fiance watched
\nfrom across the crowded room<\/p>\n

But he held you so close like he didn’t care
\nit was like no one else in the world was there
\nand still it was too late
\nfor him to say “I love you”<\/p>\n

Now he’ll never know <\/span>
\nwhy he ever let go of you<\/span>
\nThelma Lou<\/span>
\nhe dreamed he’d make it right <\/span>
\nbut none of those dreams <\/span>
\never did come true<\/span>
\nand now he just dreams of you<\/span>
\nit will always be Thelma Lou<\/span>
\nnothing anyone can do<\/span>
\nit will always be dreams of you<\/span>
\nThelma Lou <\/span><\/p>\n

19 June 2005
\n(C)2005 TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thelma Lou The day that you came back to town he thought he’d be seein’ you around he thought he could pick it up where he put it down but he thought he’d treat you right this time just like he dreamed about each night just like he prayed he’d have the brains […]<\/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],"tags":[338,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}