{"id":144,"date":"2007-01-16T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/lenny\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T06:32:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:32:55","slug":"lenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/lenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written after seeing the 1974 movie Lenny with Dustin Hoffman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lenny, say something to me;<br \/>\nLenny, say something to me.<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor,<br \/>\nNo more nightclubs anymore;<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor,<br \/>\nNo more busts anymore;<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor,<br \/>\nNo more laughter anymore.<br \/>\nLenny, say something to me,<br \/>\nLenny, say something to me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->CHORUS (to tune of A-B-C song):<\/p>\n<p>A-B-C-D-E-F-G, filled with our hypocrisy,<br \/>\nH-I-J-K-L-M-N-P-Q, rearranged, spells \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hate you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nIf I say my alphabet, tell me how many years I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell us what it starts with,<br \/>\nYou can tell us what it ends with,<br \/>\nYou can tell us what it rhymes with,<br \/>\nBut you better not tell us what the word is.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat first verse and chorus<\/p>\n<p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor,<br \/>\nNo more words anymore;<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor,<br \/>\nNo more pain anymore,<br \/>\nNo more laughter anymore,<br \/>\nNo more love anymore,<br \/>\nNo more anymore<br \/>\nNo more anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written after seeing the 1974 movie Lenny with Dustin Hoffman. Lenny, say something to me; Lenny, say something to me. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor, No more nightclubs anymore; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor, No more busts anymore; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dead on the floor, No more laughter anymore. Lenny, say something to me, Lenny, say something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}