{"id":371,"date":"2008-01-29T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:17:07","slug":"this-songs-about-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2008\/01\/29\/this-songs-about-my-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"This Song’s About My Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/p>\n

T<\/span>his song came about in response to an informal competition in an online songwriter’s workshop.<\/p>\n

Contestants are to submit a newly written song along with a one line description of the subject of the song.<\/p>\n

The winner gets his song in rotation in the stereo of the family car of the guy who conceived the competition. This is primarily for the amusement of his children, who like to get one line summaries of what each song they hear is about. (Example per Dad: “Warren Zevon, ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’- This song is about a soldier who gets killed and comes back without his head.”)<\/span><\/p>\n

The title of this<\/span> song, of course, is disingenuous.<\/p>\n

This song<\/span> is actually about… this <\/span>song. <\/span><\/p>\n

And, of course, the songwriter. The songwriter in the song. The fictional <\/span>songwriter.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

This Song’s About My Baby<\/p>\n\n

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

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nThis Song’s About My Baby<\/i><\/b>
\n
\nThis song’s about my baby <\/span>
\nThis song’s about how I feel <\/span>
\nThis song’s not some fairy tale <\/span>
\nThis song’s about something real <\/span><\/p>\n

This song is about
\n3 minutes long
\nIt took twice that long
\nto write<\/p>\n

This song is pretty
\nmuch a waste of time
\nand that pretty much sums up tonight<\/p>\n

Hell that pretty much sums up my life
\nI’ve been writing the same song
\nsince you said good bye
\nand I wrote it again tonight<\/p>\n

This song’s about my baby <\/span>
\nThis song’s about how I feel <\/span>
\nThis song’s not some fairy tale <\/span>
\nThis song’s about something real <\/span><\/p>\n

This song won’t
\nend no wars
\nthis song won’t save the world
\nThis song’s just
\nanother song
\nabout some guy who lost some girl<\/p>\n

This song’s about my baby…<\/em><\/p>\n

(C)2008, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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