{"id":3592,"date":"2021-04-08T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2021-04-08T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:13:45","slug":"country-death-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2021\/04\/08\/country-death-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Death Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

had me a wife, I had me some daughters
\nI tried so hard; I never knew still waters<\/a>
\nNothing to eat and nothing to drink
\nNothing for a man to do but sit around and think
\nNothing for a man to do but sit around and think<\/p>\n

Well, I’m a-thinkin’ and thinkin’, ’til there’s nothin’ I ain’t thunk
\nBreathing in the stink ’til finally I stunk
\nIt was at that time, I swear I lost my mind
\nI started making plans to kill my own kind
\nI started making plans to kill my own kind<\/p>\n

“Come, little daughter,” I said to the youngest one
\n“Put your coat on, we’ll have some fun
\nWe’ll go out to mountains, the one to explore.”
\nHer face then lit up, I was standing by the door
\nHer face then lit up, I was standing by the door<\/a><\/p>\n

“Come, little daughter, I will carry the lanterns<\/a>
\nWe’ll go out tonight, we’ll go to the caverns
\nWe’ll go out tonight, we’ll go to the caves
\nKiss your mother goodnight and remember that God saves
\nKiss your mother goodnight and remember that God saves.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I led her to a hole, a deep black well
\nI said, “Make a wish, make sure and not tell
\nAnd close your eyes, dear, and count to seven<\/a>
\nYou know your papa loves you; good children go to heaven
\nYou know your papa loves you; good children go to heaven.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I gave her a push, I gave her a shove
\nI pushed with all my might, I pushed with all my love<\/a>
\nI threw my child into a bottomless pit
\nShe was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit
\nShe was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit<\/p>\n

Gather round, boys, to this tale that I tell
\nYou wanna know how to take a short trip to Hell?
\nIt’s guaranteed to get your own place in Hell
\nJust take your lovely daughter and push her in the well
\nTake your lovely daughter and throw her in the well<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t speak to me of lovers with a broken heart<\/a>
\nYou wanna know what will really tear you apart?
\nI’m going out to the barn; with a never stopping pain
\nI’m going out to the barn to hang myself in shame<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Violent Femmes, Country Death Song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

had me a wife, I had me some daughters I tried so hard; I never knew still waters Nothing to eat and nothing to drink Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think Well, I’m a-thinkin’ and thinkin’, ’til there’s nothin’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/2021\/04\/08231127\/stf_hanau-110-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-VW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}