{"id":110,"date":"2004-09-01T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2004\/09\/01\/a-brilliant-song\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T21:36:00","slug":"a-brilliant-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2004\/09\/01\/a-brilliant-song\/","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the Smashing Pumpkins&#8217; <i>Muzzle<\/i> for the first time in years on a mix tape of my sister&#8217;s last week when I was home. Then I heard it again earlier this week as I was ripping my copy of <i>Mellon Collie<\/i> for Manu. Then I started obsessing over it, since it&#8217;s such an amazingly good song. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/~aj\/lj\/9-1-2004\/muzzle.wma\">Listen here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--more Lyrics...--><br \/>\nI fear that I&#8217;m ordinary, just like everyone<br \/>\nTo lie here and die among the sorrows<br \/>\nAdrift among the days<br \/>\nFor everything I ever said<br \/>\nAnd everything I&#8217;ve ever done is gone and dead<br \/>\nAs all things must surely have to end<br \/>\nAnd great loves will one day have to part<br \/>\nI know that I am meant for this world<br \/>\nMy life has been extraordinary<br \/>\nBlessed and cursed and won<br \/>\nTime heals but I&#8217;m forever broken<br \/>\nBy and by the way&#8230;<br \/>\nHave you ever heard the words<br \/>\nI&#8217;m singing in these songs?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s for the girl I&#8217;ve loved all along<br \/>\nCan a taste of love be so wrong<br \/>\nAs all things must surely have to end<br \/>\nAnd great loves will one day have to part<br \/>\nI know that I am meant for this world<br \/>\nAnd in my mind as I was floating<br \/>\nFar above the clouds<br \/>\nSome children laughed I&#8217;d fall for certain<br \/>\nFor thinking that I&#8217;d last forever<\/p>\n<p>But I knew exactly where I was<br \/>\nAnd I knew the meaning of it all<br \/>\nAnd I knew the distance to the sun<br \/>\nAnd I knew the echo that is love<br \/>\nAnd I knew the secrets in your spires<br \/>\nAnd I knew the emptiness of youth<br \/>\nAnd I knew the solitude of heart<br \/>\nAnd I knew the murmurs of the soul<br \/>\nAnd the world is drawn into your hands<br \/>\nAnd the world is etched upon your heart<br \/>\nAnd the world so hard to understand<br \/>\nIs the world you can&#8217;t live without<br \/>\nAnd I knew the silence of the world<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably post a normal entry soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the Smashing Pumpkins&#8217; Muzzle for the first time in years on a mix tape of my sister&#8217;s last week when I was home. Then I heard it again earlier this week as I was ripping my copy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2004\/09\/01\/a-brilliant-song\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c91x-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}