{"id":46,"date":"2005-11-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=46"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:33:50","slug":"10000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/11\/01\/10000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10,000<\/p>\n

I<\/span> don’t exactly believe in reincarnation (the way most people think of it) but I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of lovers tagging each other through eternity. The notion that a reluctant soul (not that I believe in souls the way most people think of them) might be drawn — tricked, even — back to life is an idea I’ve come back to again and again. (Along with half the other hack writers out there.)<\/p>\n

I’m afraid this version is a bit on the stiff side. I was really struggling just getting through the darn thing… maybe because I like the song a lot but have always felt that there isn’t that much in the words or the chords and that the song depends a lot on the singer (that would<\/span> be me, of course) to pull off some melodic and emotional nuances that don’t always get across.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the compare-and-contrast crowd will definitely want to check out the ‘produced’ version at the bottom of the download\/play links. I’ve always been fond of the recording, myself, because it captures a substantially different aspect of my singing.<\/p>\n

AYoS acoustic version:<\/p>\n

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10,000 years<\/span><\/p>\n

Up against the wall
\nthe moon was in her eyes
\nI felt her heart beat
\nI heard her sigh<\/p>\n

I touched her cheek
\na tear met my hand
\nI didn’t know it then
\nbut that tear fell to her plan<\/p>\n

10,000 years<\/span>
\nis not a day too long<\/span>
\nsince the world began<\/span>
\nI’ve been hangin round here<\/span>
\nwaiting for you to come along<\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen that shining light
\none too many times
\nI have heard the angels sing
\nwhile I riddled the devil’s rhymes<\/p>\n

“I have seen your eyes
\nburn into my soul
\nI have seen the truth
\nand I will never again be whole”<\/p>\n

10,000 years…<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d do it all again
\nand still come back for more
\nI know how it’s all gotta end
\nbut I’ll never know what it’s all for<\/p>\n

Until the end of time
\nthere’s not that long to go
\nI thought I knew heaven’s secrets
\nwhat the hell did I know?
\n
\n10,000 years
\nis not a day too long
\nsince the world began
\nI’ve been hangin round here
\nwaiting for you to come along<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t exactly believe in reincarnation (the way most people think of it) but I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of lovers tagging each other through eternity. The notion that a reluctant soul (not that I believe in souls the way most people think of them) might be drawn — tricked, even — back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[665,117,283,346,664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}