{"id":405,"date":"2008-10-05T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-10-29T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:22:58","slug":"someday-baby-this-will-all-be-washed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2008\/10\/05\/someday-baby-this-will-all-be-washed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Someday, baby, this will all be washed away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/SometimeBaby4.jpg\" alt=\"Someday Baby\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 180%;\"><\/p>\n<p>S<\/span>ometimes you just see how it&#8217;s all going to go down. You look and look and no matter how you look, you see the same end coming.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone sees it. And when it comes, it hits them hard.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the sad wisdom born of years of life, death and change, as they say in the comics, but at a certain zoom level, the pain and the pleasure and the sorrow and the joy start developing some kind of symmetry. Not, perhaps, the nice, even, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">balanced<\/span> kind&#8230; but an inner symmetry that is at once reassuring and sobering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" style=\"border-style: dotted; margin: 20px; width: 240px; float: right; font-size: 12px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 10px;\"><b><i>Someday Baby<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-405-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor-SomedayBaby-Ayos-2008-09-05\/AYoS-2008-09-05_Someday_Baby.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor-SomedayBaby-Ayos-2008-09-05\/AYoS-2008-09-05_Someday_Baby.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor-SomedayBaby-Ayos-2008-09-05\/AYoS-2008-09-05_Someday_Baby.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TkMajor-SomedayBaby-Ayos-2008-09-05\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">more stream &amp; DL options<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><i>previous versions<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/10\/someday-baby.html\">Friday, October 07, 2005<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/04\/sunday-baby.html\">Sunday, April 16, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2008\/03\/someday-baby-thats-never.html\">Sunday, March 02, 2008<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking, of course, of that moment in the narrative of life when a wised up adult tells his or her young and heartbroken lover, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">You&#8217;ll be<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">better off without me, doll. It&#8217;s a big world out there. You&#8217;re gonna find some guy who really loves you &#8212; not a guy like me, always out for number one, looking for the next adventure, the next good time. You&#8217;re going to find someone who deserves a fine girl like you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span>The funny thing is, after a while, you see it happening. You see one of the perfectly good girls you threw away out on the street with her new number one and they look so happy. A few years later you see them out shopping with the kids, the happy family. At a certain point, you look twice and, if you try <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">real hard<\/span>, it can almost look good for a few moments.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">their<\/span> destiny.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><i><\/p>\n<p>previous versions<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/10\/someday-baby.html\">Friday, October 07, 2005<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/04\/sunday-baby.html\">Sunday, April 16, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2008\/03\/someday-baby-thats-never.html\">Sunday, March 02, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lyrics<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<b><i><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">Someday Baby<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/b><\/span>someday, baby<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be looking down on me<br \/>\nbut don&#8217;t you ever think I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhat you&#8217;re bound to see<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just destiny<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just got to be<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s my prophecy<\/p>\n<p>someday, baby<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;ve got this<br \/>\nwhole thing straight<br \/>\nafter you contemplate<br \/>\nmaybe meditate<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll see that it was fate<br \/>\nit had to be this way<br \/>\nbesides<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all too late<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">someday, baby <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">you&#8217;ll be laughing in the sun<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I can see you with your Only One<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and I know that it just has to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">it&#8217;s prophecy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">it is destiny<\/span><\/p>\n<p>someday, baby<br \/>\nthis will all be washed away<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what the old men say<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;ll be okay<br \/>\na million years from today<br \/>\nit&#8217;ll end our pain<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">someday, baby <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">youll be laughing in the sun<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I can see you with your Only One<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and you know it just has to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">it is prophecy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">it&#8217;s destiny<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">7\/27\/98<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">(C)2008, TK Major<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just see how it&#8217;s all going to go down. 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