{"id":313,"date":"2007-03-30T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=313"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:41:09","slug":"man-in-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/03\/30\/man-in-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in the Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blue<\/p>\n

<\/span>I<\/span> suppose you ought to know you’re in trouble when you realize you consider your daily dive into the soothing depths of the bottle to be somehow heroic.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the truth is that I was not just a willful and enthusiastic drunk, I didn’t just romanticize <\/span>drunken nescience — I exulted it as somehow emblematic of man’s struggle with his own weaker nature.<\/p>\n

In those days — and for a long time after — I viewed my drinking as a badge of honor, like a wounded survivor proud of his crutch.<\/p>\n

So, where you <\/span>might see the protagonist of this song as, oh, say, for arguments sake, a pathetic loser<\/span>, when I was writing it, I saw the guy as a tragic hero, battered and wounded, yet rising (through the haze of a thousand hangovers stretched end to end) to face the sysiphean ordeal of daily life…<\/p>\n

He could<\/span> give up.<\/p>\n

But, somehow, he reaches deep inside himself to find that last bit of courage, reaches for his medicine, and goes on to face another day.<\/p>\n

Blue Recollection<\/span><\/p>\n\n

more stream & DL options<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

previous versions<\/i>
\nSaturday, November 05, 2005<\/a>
\nFriday, April 07, 2006<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nBlue Recollection<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>Now the last thing I remember
\nYou were walking out the door
\nMy hand reached for the bottle
\nthen there ain’t no more<\/p>\n

you’re just a blue recollection<\/span>
\nthat ain’t nothin’ new<\/span>
\nI been having trouble forgetting<\/span>
\nto remember that I don’t still love you<\/span><\/p>\n

I wake up at nite
\nbut it ain’t because of you
\nI’m just listening to the plaster crack
\nand the clock tick in the next guy’s room<\/p>\n

you’re just a blue recollection<\/span>
\nthat ain’t nothin’ new<\/span>
\nI been having trouble forgetting<\/span>
\nto remember that I don’t still love you<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Now the last thing I remember
\nYou were walking out the door
\nMy hand reached for the bottle
\nthen there ain’t no more…<\/p>\n

(C)1987, 2007, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose you ought to know you’re in trouble when you realize you consider your daily dive into the soothing depths of the bottle to be somehow heroic. But the truth is that I was not just a willful and enthusiastic drunk, I didn’t just romanticize drunken nescience — I exulted it as somehow emblematic […]<\/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":[513,434,514,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}