{"id":153,"date":"2007-01-18T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/risin-star\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T00:20:52","slug":"risin-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/risin-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Risin&#8217; Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written around 1976<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He gets up every day at 7:30,<br \/>\nEvery morning starts the same:<br \/>\nA quick cup of coffee, a long look at the map,<br \/>\nAnd a few low calls of her name.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He rolls into anew town every evenin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,<br \/>\nThen his routine starts getting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 old;<br \/>\nHearin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bad country music,<br \/>\nAnd hopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 he don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lose it,<br \/>\nWhile  he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for his risin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 star.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCHORUS:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She left him somewhere in South Dakota,<br \/>\nSaid she was headin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for L.A.;<br \/>\nAnd every day it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the travel,<br \/>\nAnd at night he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll unravel in a country bar,<br \/>\nLookin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for his risin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 star.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hear her latest single,<br \/>\nSo he keeps the radio on all the time;<br \/>\nShe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll sing a song of loneliness,<br \/>\nFillin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 up his emptiness,<br \/>\nTellin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 him she needs him all the time.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>So if you see a man come in tonight,<br \/>\nWith weary eyes and sorrow in his face;<br \/>\nPlease come and tell me,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who I love only,<br \/>\nAnd I need him to escape from this place.<em \/><\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I left him somewhere in South Dakota,<br \/>\nNever did make it to L.A.;<br \/>\nAnd every day it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the travel,<br \/>\nAnd at night I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll unravel in a country bar,<br \/>\nFeelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 like a fallin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 star.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written around 1976 He gets up every day at 7:30, Every morning starts the same: A quick cup of coffee, a long look at the map, And a few low calls of her name.<\/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-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}