{"id":55,"date":"2014-11-14T22:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2014-11-15T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T23:40:55","slug":"ivory-tears","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/learn-more\/ivory-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and I&#8217;ve fallen again<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">here in the dust where the best stories end<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I can start to defend<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">all that I once tried to condemn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>every song is the same<br \/>\nharmonies clash to carve out the pain<br \/>\nI can write my own name<br \/>\nbut I write yours and shoulder the blame<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>at least I can catch these ivory tears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as the sun dies and the world disappears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>everything I have not said is true<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I tear out this page and present it to you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and I\u2019m broken again<br \/>\ncurse and scream as my eyelids descend<br \/>\nI can\u2019t hope to defend<br \/>\nwhat I have said while you\u2019ve been my friend<\/p>\n<p>is our passion the same?<br \/>\nraise the sword \u2019til the end of your reign<br \/>\nyou can cover the stain<br \/>\nand place the shards back into the frame<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>at least I can catch these ivory tears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as the sun dies and the world disappears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>everything I have not said is true<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I tear out this page and present it to you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>at least I can catch these ivory tears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(I can catch)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as the sun dies and the world disappears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>everything I have not said is true<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(tear a page from that book we once knew)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I tear out this page and present it to you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>at least I can catch\u00a0these ivory tears<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as the sun dies\u00a0and the world disappears<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">[unused verse]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> every song is so frail<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> in the road shouting into the gale<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> I can tell my own tale<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> but you know the ending beyond the veil<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Learn more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/learn-more\/\"><b>\u2190<\/b>\u00a0Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and I&#8217;ve fallen again here in the dust where the best stories end I can start to defend all that I once tried to condemn every song is the same harmonies clash to carve out the pain I can write my own name but I write yours and shoulder the blame at least I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/bfmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}