{"id":95,"date":"2005-12-18T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=95"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:12:48","slug":"emily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/12\/18\/emily\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emily\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span>t’s been a long time since I’ve fallen in love drifting around in a rowboat.<\/p>\n

But it’s a nice memory. Even if it seems more like a dream, now. Sometimes it seems like someone else’s dream.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t, however, in someone else’s dream. It was at a tiny park in the foothills just east of Orange, California — undoubtedly now surrounded by condo complexes if it survives at all — then, surrounded by empty rolling hills and stands of oak.<\/p>\n

I fell in love… but she didn’t. Still, it seemed like such a good idea, I took a string of girls there, trying to recapture that lost moment. Other girls may have fallen in love with me… but I never got that moment back.<\/p>\n

The song — or at least its inspiration — also owes more than a little to a number of works by Brian Eno, most notably “By This River.”<\/p>\n\n

EMILY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On a lake
\nthe faded yellow row boat
\ndrifts in lazy circles
\nwhile I fall in love with you<\/p>\n

Emily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky go around<\/span>
\nEmily Emily <\/span>
\nwatch the sky<\/span><\/p>\n

Willows weep
\ntears melt in cool water
\nyour white cotton dress
\nyou warm brown legs
\nyour deep green eyes
\nEmily<\/p>\n

Emily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky go around<\/span>
\nEmily Emily<\/span>
\nwatch the sky<\/span>
\n
\n(C)1982, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 It’s been a long time since I’ve fallen in love drifting around in a rowboat. But it’s a nice memory. Even if it seems more like a dream, now. Sometimes it seems like someone else’s dream. It wasn’t, however, in someone else’s dream. It was at a tiny park in the foothills just east […]<\/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":[556,624,558,557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}