{"id":348,"date":"2007-09-09T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=348"},"modified":"2015-10-29T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:11:21","slug":"i-hold-my-hand-to-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/09\/09\/i-hold-my-hand-to-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"I hold my hand to the fire…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scared\"<\/p>\n

H<\/span>e waited.<\/p>\n

He didn’t know why he was waiting. He didn’t know what he was waiting for. But he was sure he had to.<\/p>\n

One night, after a thousand nights of empty dreams, he dreamt of a girl with dark, glittering eyes and long brown hair who stood very close to him in the darkness of a rooftop, an unknown city’s shadows spreading away in the night.<\/p>\n

She stood close, saying nothing and he could feel her breathing as though she were pressed against him.<\/p>\n

Half a moon looked through clouds whose fingers glowed and spread across the bleary stars. On the rooftop, in the shadows, nothing moved but the girl and she barely moved.<\/p>\n

Just that…<\/p>\n

He couldn’t remember anything more from the dream.<\/p>\n

Night after night he thought about that dream, hoping, maybe, to find his way back to it.<\/p>\n

A thousand more nights of waiting for a dream that might never come again…<\/p>\n

Scared<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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

previous versions<\/i>
\nSunday, October 16, 2005<\/a>
\nTuesday, February 14, 2006<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nScared<\/span><\/p>\n

don’t know what to do about you
\nI didn’t know that I could still be scared
\nempty dreams night after night
\nafraid that you’ll never be there<\/p>\n

I could give myself to love <\/span>
\nbut love would only break my heart<\/span>
\nI could give my world to you<\/span>
\nbut you would tear that little world apart <\/span><\/p>\n

One day I looked at myself
\nand then I began again
\nI built it up and I tore it down
\nand I won’t do that again<\/p>\n

I could give myself to love…<\/span><\/p>\n

every time I hear I’m doing all right
\nI know that I’m living a lie
\nevery time that I feel myself start to slip
\nI hold my hand to the fire<\/p>\n

I could give myself to love <\/span>
\nbut love would only break my heart<\/span>
\nI could give my world to you<\/span>
\nbut you would tear that little world apart <\/span><\/p>\n

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

He waited. He didn’t know why he was waiting. He didn’t know what he was waiting for. But he was sure he had to. One night, after a thousand nights of empty dreams, he dreamt of a girl with dark, glittering eyes and long brown hair who stood very close to him in the darkness […]<\/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":[6,27],"tags":[450,272,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}