{"id":149,"date":"2007-01-17T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-newest-sad-song\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:16:11","slug":"the-newest-sad-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-newest-sad-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Newest Sad Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Country-western waltz written in 1976<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pullin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 off the highway to eat where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some room to park<br \/>\nHe orders the steak combination as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dark<br \/>\nAs he waits for a refill, the diner gets real still<br \/>\nAs the newest sad song fills the room.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real hard to listen when your body\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hardly alive;<br \/>\nThe waitresses come and they go and they change shifts at five;<br \/>\nHe likes this one better \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccause though he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just met her,<br \/>\nShe looks kinda like his ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p><em>Wherever he goes, he already knows he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never really fit in;<br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the road and dreamin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of home;<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a game this old cowbody can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nAs she pours him more coffee, she asks him what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new on the road;<br \/>\nHe swallows and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 much,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and stares at the floor;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I drink and I sleep and get too much to eat,<br \/>\nAnd then get drunk and get drunk some more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>He says he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be going, leaves his tip by the coffee and stands;<br \/>\nThe newest sad song plays again as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rubbin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 his hands;<br \/>\nHe looks out the window and there in the shadow<br \/>\nIs the only friend he understands.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country-western waltz written in 1976 Pullin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 off the highway to eat where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some room to park He orders the steak combination as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dark As he waits for a refill, the diner gets real still As the newest sad song fills the room.<\/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-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}