{"id":297,"date":"2007-01-19T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=297"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:26:28","slug":"ill-be-loving-you-until-im-put-in-my-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/01\/19\/ill-be-loving-you-until-im-put-in-my-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll be loving you until I’m put in my grave…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span><\/p>\n

A sense of betrayal hung over America when this song was written. It was so heavy you could taste the bitterness in your mouth.<\/p>\n

That feeling seeped into seemingly every aspect of our lives, from religion to family, to romance, like a corrosive leak, slowing eating its way through the infrastructure of our lives.<\/p>\n

I wrote about that in the political sense when I posted this song before but I neglected to explore the broader implications of that acidic doubt and distrust… how it ate into not just societal institutions like government, schools, jobs, church, but right into the family and and the most intimate relationships between people.<\/p>\n

Everything we knew was wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s how it looked, most days.<\/p>\n

But when I wrote this song — one of my very first — I wanted to craft a simple expression of faith in love in the face of doubt and fear… or get laid. I can’t remember which. Probably the latter.<\/p>\n

But it’s a nice little song, anyhow, I think.<\/p>\n\n

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

previous AYoS versions<\/span><\/span>
\nThursday, Oct 27, 2005<\/a>
\nSunday, March 19, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

What Promises Mean Today<\/span><\/p>\n

I know what promises mean today
\nI don’t care I believe in you anyway
\nI don’t care what anyone says
\nI’ll believe in you until I’m dead
\nBut at the rate things are going
\nThat could be any day
\nI don’t care
\nI believe in you anyway<\/p>\n

You say you’re my lover
\nmy sister my brother my friend
\nI’m surprised you don’t claim
\nto be my mother my father
\nand the priest that the church said they’d send at the end<\/p>\n

And I still don’t care what anyone says
\nI’ll be loving you until I’m put in my grave
\nbut at the rate things are going
\nthat could be any day
\nI don’t care I believe in you anyway<\/span><\/p>\n

I know what promises mean today
\nI don’t care I believe in you anyway<\/p>\n

(C)1974, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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