{"id":203,"date":"2011-02-12T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T04:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-02-12T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T04:29:05","slug":"tall-as-our-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/lyrics\/tall-as-our-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall as Our Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>daddy you sure showed me <br \/>\n              how to be a model citizen<br \/>\n              i found out how to get out <br \/>\n              everything i need from within<br \/>\n              too bad you only see <br \/>\n              through the barrel of your gun<br \/>\n              i wish you had a wider view <br \/>\n              but am i the only one?<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve turned our dream into our machine <br \/>\n              which is working for the rich<br \/>\n              we profit off our neighbor&#8217;s cancer<br \/>\n              and it works until we&#8217;re sick<br \/>\n              we must begin again so our children can<br \/>\n              work for more than this<br \/>\n              but who will we look to, will we look to you? we look up but<\/p>\n<p>chorus<br \/>\n              we will never be as tall as our fathers<br \/>\n              and our resolve will never be <br \/>\n              as firm as his hand<br \/>\n              no i may never be as tall as my father<br \/>\n              but was he such a big man?<\/p>\n<p>your flag is always red, <br \/>\n              isn&#8217;t red the color of blood?<br \/>\n              your rag is always wrung dry, even in a flood<br \/>\n              your empty pockets bulge, <br \/>\n              i don&#8217;t understand the reason why<br \/>\n              there&#8217;s not enough to feed <br \/>\n              a single serving of your pie.<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve turned our dream into a machine<br \/>\n              which will bury all of us<br \/>\n              we lock our children in the dark until<br \/>\n              the darkness is a must<br \/>\n              we salt our sickness like the wounds we lick<br \/>\n              cause there&#8217;s no one to trust<br \/>\n              so who do we look to? <br \/>\n              do we look to you? we look up but<\/p>\n<p>chorus<br \/>\n              we will never be as tall as our fathers<br \/>\n              and our resolve will never be <br \/>\n              as firm as his hand<br \/>\n              no i may never be as tall as my father<br \/>\n              but was he such a big man?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>daddy you sure showed me how to be a model citizen i found out how to get out everything i need from within too bad you only see through the barrel of your gun i wish you had a wider view but am i the only one? we&#8217;ve turned our dream into our machine which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[9,6,10],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-the-shiz","tag-very-small-things","tag-where-we-stand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}