{"id":4184,"date":"2011-09-24T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-09-24T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T03:29:05","slug":"less-than-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/lyrics\/less-than-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Than Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two hands <br \/>\n              that work just like yours<br \/>\n              my thumbs point in both directions<br \/>\n              I have two legs j<br \/>\n              ust as long as yours<br \/>\n              they reach from my hip to the floor<br \/>\n              I have one heart<br \/>\n              it works much like yours<br \/>\n              It cries both for joy and rejection<br \/>\n              I have one soul <br \/>\n              that longs just like yours<br \/>\n              To knock on heaven&#8217;s door<\/p>\n<p>              I\u2019m surprised at how anatomies <br \/>\n              of body and mind<br \/>\n              Are supposed to be the symphonies, <br \/>\n              the great ties that bind<br \/>\n              But instead it seems that some of us <br \/>\n              are being maligned<br \/>\n              For leaving behind the bigotry<br \/>\n              To believe love is blindness and poetry<br \/>\n              So school me,<\/p>\n<p>              Chorus<br \/>\n              What gives you the right to tell me <br \/>\n              that my heart is anything less than holy<br \/>\n              And what gives you the right to tell me <br \/>\n              that my love is anything less than worthy<br \/>\n              And what gives you the right to burden me with your self-righteous testimony<br \/>\n              And what gives you the right to tell me <br \/>\n              that your love is the only way to love?<\/p>\n<p>              I had a thought a minute ago<br \/>\n              That this bullshit talk was over<br \/>\n              I heard a song a second ago<br \/>\n              It went &quot;we shall overcome&quot;<br \/>\n              I heard a vow some years ago<br \/>\n              That didn&#8217;t say husband, wife or other<br \/>\n              I think it said that a union<br \/>\n              Was when two came together as one<\/p>\n<p>              I\u2019m surprised by how civilities <br \/>\n              on the steady decline<br \/>\n              Are exchanged for inhumanities <br \/>\n              that defy every line<br \/>\n              And every way in which we measure <br \/>\n              how to greet the divine<br \/>\n              In the lives of the people we meet each day<br \/>\n              And I fear for the tithes we will have to pay<br \/>\n              Chorus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two hands that work just like yours my thumbs point in both directions I have two legs j ust as long as yours they reach from my hip to the floor I have one heart it works much like yours It cries both for joy and rejection I have one soul that longs [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","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=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}