{"id":18438,"date":"2017-05-11T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=18438"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:49:31","slug":"dear-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2017\/05\/11\/dear-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear John,"},"content":{"rendered":"

A true story with music inspired by Welcome To The Machine and Pigs (3 Different Ones).<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>
Former Officer John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LYRICS
\nDear John,
\nYou’ve gone so wrong
\nThinkin’ bigwig for weigh [sic] too long
\nReduced to a big PIG song
\nI wish you made me laugh
\nInstead,
\n… I try not to cry<\/p>\n

Had to conform
\nHand in his uniform
\nThe life he’s worn
\nWorn, torn and wasted
\nYou know…
\nThe dues you owe
\nFor lives devastated
\nShouldn’t have wasted
\nI wish you made me laugh
\nInstead,
\n… I try not to cry<\/p>\n

Dear John
\nHad to conform
\nDidn’t learn
\nFrom the pig he’ll earn
\nFreedom he’ll yearn
\nYou know…
\nThe dues you owe
\nThose berated
\nLives devastated
\nShouldn’t have waited
\nWhy be hated?
\nI wish you made me laugh
\nInstead,
\n… I try not to cry<\/p>\n

Dear John, (Instrumental).mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear John,\u00a0\u00a0 .mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE SONG
\nA former police officer berated me. He thought it would make him superior by laughing at me. I wished I could have laughed back at him… but, he made me want to cry.<\/p>\n

Style: Alternative Rock
\nChords: Em D Em9 C \/ C Am Em
\nRecording: digital stereo<\/p>\n

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers<\/p>\n

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.<\/p>\n

From the album Gay Church<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A true story with music inspired by Welcome To The Machine and Pigs (3 Different Ones). LYRICS Dear John, You’ve gone so wrong Thinkin’ bigwig for weigh [sic] too long Reduced to a big PIG song I wish you made me laugh Instead, … I try not to cry Had to conform Hand in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3454,14,24],"tags":[148,3456,312,3507,3473,3455,487,539,556,613,615,2223,781,782,2270,3457,2033],"class_list":["post-18438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-daniel","category-gay-church","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-chester-county","tag-church-street","tag-free","tag-gay-church","tag-gay-church-band","tag-gay-street","tag-live","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-pa","tag-police-corruption","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-street-musicians","tag-west-chester-pennsylvania","tag-west-chester-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18440,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18438\/revisions\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}