{"id":296,"date":"2007-01-13T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:27:24","slug":"willows-weep-tears-melt-in-cool-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/01\/13\/willows-weep-tears-melt-in-cool-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Willows weep… tears melt in cool water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"On<\/p>\n

I <\/span>don’t write a lot of what you’d call love<\/span> songs.<\/p>\n

Broken hearts, betrayals, disillusionment, dissolution, self-destruction, simmering anger… that’s<\/span> my turf. They didn’t call me the Bard of Bitterness, Denial, and Regret<\/span> for nothin’…<\/p>\n

But this is<\/span> a love song. And I’ve always had a soft spot for it.<\/p>\n

This version is a little unusual for AYoS. While it’s built around acoustic guitar, there are a couple of voices (both mine), and the second guitar, instead of noodling around the melody as usual, tries to somewhat mirror the first (and it comes oddly close, considering what a sloppy guitarist I truly am… perhaps too close to do much good). I even threw in a little echo, a stab at otherworldliness that will no doubt just irritate some purists — but what are they doing listening to me<\/span>, anyhow?<\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a>
\nprevious AYoS versions<\/span><\/span>
\nSeptember 23, 2006<\/a>
\nMarch 25, 2006<\/a>
\nDecember 18, 2005<\/a>
\n<\/span>
\nEmily<\/span><\/p>\n

On a lake
\nthe faded yellow row boat
\ndrifts in lazy circles
\nwhile I fall in love with you<\/p>\n

Emily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky go around<\/span>
\nEmily Emily <\/span>
\nwatch the sky<\/span><\/p>\n

Willows weep
\ntears melt in cool water
\nyour white cotton dress
\nyou warm brown legs
\nyour deep green eyes
\nEmily<\/p>\n

Emily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky go around<\/span>
\nEmily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky<\/span>
\n
\n(C)1982, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t write a lot of what you’d call love songs. Broken hearts, betrayals, disillusionment, dissolution, self-destruction, simmering anger… that’s my turf. They didn’t call me the Bard of Bitterness, Denial, and Regret for nothin’… But this is a love song. And I’ve always had a soft spot for it. This version is a little […]<\/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":[556,558,40,560,557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}