{"id":360,"date":"2007-10-21T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:36:10","slug":"if-they-could-put-you-in-jail-for-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/10\/21\/if-they-could-put-you-in-jail-for-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/IfTheyCouldPutYouInJail.jpg\" alt=\"If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">New Song Alert!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I wrote this song a couple weeks ago and, after posting a very rough acoustic version and getting some feedback in a <a href=\"http:\/\/acapella.harmony-central.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1776903\">songwriting forum<\/a> I sometimes hang out in, I decided to try to put together a fuller, combo version.<\/p>\n<p>I had posted this briefly last week but thought twice about the performance and some of the instrumentation so I pulled the post and reworked the song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3409804489\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=368417925\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tkmajor.bandcamp.com\/album\/gone-is-gone\">Gone Is Gone by TK Major<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><i>If They Could Put You in Jail for Dreaming<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, here is my confession<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the guilty one<br \/>\nI knew just what I was doing<br \/>\nand now look at what I&#8217;ve done<\/p>\n<p>there isn&#8217;t any mystery<br \/>\nabout just who&#8217;s to blame<br \/>\nthe saddest little crime in history<br \/>\nhas been added to my name<\/p>\n<p><i>If they could put you in jail for dreaming<br \/>\n<\/i><i> I&#8217;d never see the streets again<\/i><br \/>\n<i> I&#8217;d be lying in my cell<br \/>\ntelling stories to myself<br \/>\nand dreamin&#8217; bout what might have been <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I stole a chance for happiness<br \/>\nthen drove it into a ditch<br \/>\nI stole the secrets of hate and love<br \/>\nthen I forgot which was which<\/p>\n<p><i>If they could put you in jail for dreaming.<\/i><i>..<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I know my biggest crime<br \/>\nis something I did not do<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a shame and a sin I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nfollow that whim<br \/>\nand steal away with you<\/p>\n<p><i>If they could put you in jail for dreaming<\/i><i>&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><br \/>\n2007\/10\/18 TK Major<br \/>\n(C)2007, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Song Alert! I wrote this song a couple weeks ago and, after posting a very rough acoustic version and getting some feedback in a songwriting forum I sometimes hang out in, I decided to try to put together a fuller, combo version. I had posted this briefly last week but thought twice about the [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,8,393],"tags":[201,424,40,752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}