{"id":417,"date":"2009-04-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=417"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:53:03","slug":"bristol-get-your-sorry-wt-backside-back-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2009\/04\/19\/bristol-get-your-sorry-wt-backside-back-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol, get your sorry, WT backside back here…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI<\/span>gnorance is bliss, pretty much, when it comes to pop culture.<\/p>\n

Even before my TV died I was pretty isolated from the incessant inanity and mindless chatter of the popular media.<\/p>\n

But I am<\/span> a political beast, and when the worlds of politics and pop culture admix or worse, procreate, it can be hard for even me to escape being caught up.<\/p>\n

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Bristol, Don’t Go<\/em><\/strong> [ACOUSTIC]
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\nFriday, March 27, 2009<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So it was with the candidacy of Alaskan governor Sarah Palin for the vice-presidency. Faithful readers with short-to-medium length memories may recall my thinly veiled jab at the populist Ms Palin in the form of my song, “A Thousand Lies (Bridge to Nowhere)<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But, the election cycle being over, I might have been blissfully unaware of the latest Palin family drama, the breakup of Sarah’s pregnant 17 year old daughter from her once-much-touted fiance, um… what’s his name?<\/p>\n

Still, my blissful ignorance was pierced when the media feasted on the break-up of two 17 year olds, sending it to the very top of Google’s aggregated news page. (However briefly.) And a day or two later, trapped in the supermarket line, the tragic dimensions of this shattered love affair were hammered home by one tabloid headline after another.<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TkMajor-BristolDontGo-Ayos-2009-04-19audioFromVid\/BristolDontGoayos-2009-04-19-vid-audio.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Clearly, this was<\/span> news of national import.<\/p>\n

Maybe I was still feeling the afterglow of in the wake of my song about another teen pregnancy gone muy complicado<\/span>, the mandolin-driven “Lyin’ Cheatin’ Baby Daddy Dog Little Boy<\/a>.” Maybe I just wanted to drain the last little drop of juice out of the Palin story as that senior stateswoman of trailer trash politics goes into what will no doubt be a chyrsalic transformational hiatus.<\/p>\n

So, imagine my disappointment when the story of the young lovers breakup dropped off the front pages of even the tabs like the leaves off an overwatered Ficus.<\/p>\n

Another shot at the big time gone… like snow on the water… so to speak.<\/p>\n

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nBristol, Don’t Go<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time when I knew everything
\njust about a year ago
\nthere was a time when you wore my ring
\nand now it’s lyin’ there in the snow<\/p>\n

I thought it would always be you and me
\nand I thought it could always be so
\nI thought tomorrows were all just like today
\nbut, now, Bristol, babe, I just don’t know<\/p>\n

Bristol the future’s not ours to hold<\/span>
\nI can feel it slipping away<\/span>
\nBristol I thought I owned the world<\/span>
\nnow the world owns me today<\/span><\/p>\n

The bigger the dream the smaller the dawn
\nI barely woke up today
\nI know I’ll find a way to go on
\nat least it’s what I say<\/p>\n

Bristol the future’s not ours to hold<\/span>
\nI can feel it slipping away<\/span>
\nBristol I thought I owned the world<\/span>
\nnow the world owns me today<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)2009, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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