{"id":314,"date":"2007-04-01T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=314"},"modified":"2015-11-03T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T03:26:30","slug":"if-i-sleep-i-might-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/04\/01\/if-i-sleep-i-might-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"If I sleep I might dream…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby,<\/p>\n

Y<\/span>ou could start out drinking in a trucker bar on West Anaheim Street in Long Beach, end up closing a bar in Bakersfield and still find yourself driving back into downtown LA with an hour to spare before dawn…<\/p>\n

What to do with your time?<\/p>\n

About this version: <\/span>I’d been meaning to drag my laptop and a mic over to my buddy Kurt’s<\/a> house for a long time and something like this <\/span>version of this song would have been a good candidate for a bongo part by the intuitive and adaptive percussionist.<\/p>\n

My own sub-beach party overdub on the recording below can only hint at what might have been if I’d just got my ass in gear…<\/p>\n

Carpe <\/span>that diem<\/span>, baby.<\/p>\n

Baby, I Just Got the Blues<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/BabyIJustGotTheBlues_TKMajor_20070331\/2007-03-30_AYoS_Baby_I_Just_Got_the_Blues.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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

previous AYoS versions<\/i>
\nSaturday, December 03, 2005<\/a>
\nSaturday, June 17, 2006<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nBaby, I Just Got the Blues
\n<\/i><\/b>
\nI drive around all night
\nlooking for nothing to do
\nI play guitar til dawn
\nbut every song’s about you
\nif I sleep I might dream
\nand we all know that dreams don’t come true<\/p>\n

Ain’t nothin wrong with me baby<\/span>
\nI just got the blues<\/span>
\nAin’t…<\/span><\/p>\n

walked along the shore
\nwondering what a smart guy would do
\nin the Idiot’s Guide to Love
\nI must be listed in the back under “fool”
\nsure once I had some answers
\nnow I’d settle for some lies that sound true<\/p>\n

Ain’t nothin wrong with me baby<\/span>
\nI just got the blues<\/span>
\nAin’t…<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s easy for you sugar but then
\neverything’s easy for you
\nYou know what you want
\nand you know how to make it come true
\nBut, it’s hard for me, doll, to
\nbid all that we had adieu<\/p>\n

Ain’t nothin wrong with me baby<\/span>
\nI just got the blues<\/span>
\nAin’t <\/span>nothin wrong with me baby<\/span>
\nI just got the blues<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1998 TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/object>
\n[full version on Soundclick | requires Flash]<\/span><\/div>\n

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

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