{"id":382,"date":"2008-04-02T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=382"},"modified":"2015-10-29T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:11:30","slug":"pretend-were-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2008\/04\/02\/pretend-were-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend We&#8217;re in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/pretendWereInLove2.jpg\" alt=\"Pretend We're in Love\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">new song alert<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This new song started in a thread in a songwriting forum I participate in.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had asked about &#8220;<a id=\"thread_title_1940183\" style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/acapella.harmony-central.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1940183\">Tricks for writing love song?<\/a>&#8221; and a couple of people suggested falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a more practical tack, I had written:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was gonna say, <i>pretend <\/i>you&#8217;re in love.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m in love, I can&#8217;t write. I can&#8217;t think straight. All I can do is moon around and, you know, <i>obsess&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Er&#8230;if memory serves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"image\" style=\"border-style: dotted; margin: 20px; width: 240px; float: right; font-size: 12px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 10px;\">\n<p><b><i>Pretend We&#8217;re in Love<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-382-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor_WereInLove2008-04-01_ayos\/2008-04-01_ayos_pretend_were_in_love_new_song-motuAnalog1_2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor_WereInLove2008-04-01_ayos\/2008-04-01_ayos_pretend_were_in_love_new_song-motuAnalog1_2.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor_WereInLove2008-04-01_ayos\/2008-04-01_ayos_pretend_were_in_love_new_song-motuAnalog1_2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TkMajor_WereInLove2008-04-01_ayos\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">more stream &amp; DL options<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And one of the other people writing in the thread said, &#8220;[S]ounds like a great start to a love song to me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After thinking about it a minute, I thought, yeah&#8230; why not?<\/p>\n<p>I posted the lyrics about 30 minutes later and had a link to this recording up within a little over 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Then, again, it ain&#8217;t exactly <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Desolation Row,&#8221; <\/span><\/span>either.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lyrics <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><i>Pretend We&#8217;re in Love<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was gonna say<br \/>\nPretend we&#8217;re in love<br \/>\nI was gonna make a joke<br \/>\nI was going to wait for the laughter to come<br \/>\nbut I was going to hope against hope<\/p>\n<p><i>I was going to smile and look far away<br \/>\nI was going to be aloof<br \/>\nI was going to act like it&#8217;s all a big game<br \/>\nanything pretense but the truth<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was gonna say, Did you ever dream about<br \/>\nrunning away some where?<br \/>\nSome day you and me maybe we could dream<br \/>\nabout running away some where&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>I was going to smile and look far away<br \/>\nI was going to be aloof<br \/>\nI was going to act like it&#8217;s all a big game<br \/>\nanything pretense but the truth<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But I just can&#8217;t pretend I don&#8217;t love you<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><em>04-01-2008 at <span class=\"time\">10:01 PM<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">(C)2008, TK Major<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new song alert This new song started in a thread in a songwriting forum I participate in. Someone had asked about &#8220;Tricks for writing love song?&#8221; and a couple of people suggested falling in love. Taking a more practical tack, I had written: I was gonna say, pretend you&#8217;re in love. When I&#8217;m in love, [&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":[6,340,263],"tags":[201,310,387,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}