{"id":9501,"date":"2009-07-21T06:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2015-05-12T07:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:13:33","slug":"the-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9501","title":{"rendered":"The nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>And the World Has the Nerve to Keep Turning<\/b> &#8212; by Tracy Bonham<\/p>\n<p>Oh greedy one oh greedy two<br \/>\nDid you do what you could do<br \/>\nFor crippled one or crippled two?<br \/>\nA can of beans a sugar tooth?<br \/>\nYou dig a hole under your greed<br \/>\nYou follow down until you bleed<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t know how it feels<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t know how it feels<\/p>\n<p>Oh busy one oh busy two<br \/>\nNone for them and all for you<br \/>\nThe can of dreams you sold your soul<br \/>\nSomeone went and poked a hole<br \/>\nNow there are days when you feel bad<br \/>\nYou almost feel the heart you had<\/p>\n<p>The kid inside your head<br \/>\nKeeps asking why the<br \/>\nWorld has the nerve to keep turning<br \/>\nAnd how the sun&#8217;s got the balls to keep burning?<\/p>\n<p>Oh fickle one oh fickle two<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s back to work what can you do?<br \/>\nSomeone else will take the time<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve got yours and I&#8217;ve got mine<br \/>\nYour nagging heart won&#8217;t settle down as you stop to look around<\/p>\n<p>The kid inside your head<br \/>\nKeeps asking why the<br \/>\nWorld has the nerve to keep turning?<br \/>\nAnd how the sun&#8217;s got the balls to keep burning?<br \/>\nAnd why the moon has the gall to keep staring?<br \/>\nAnd why your heart cannot stop caring stop caring stop caring?<\/p>\n<p>The kid inside your head keeps asking why the<br \/>\nWorld has the nerve to keep turning?<br \/>\nAnd how the sun&#8217;s got the balls to keep burning?<br \/>\nAnd why the moon has the gall to keep staring?<br \/>\nAnd why your heart cannot stop caring caring caring<br \/>\nStop<\/p>\n<p>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhapsody.com\/tracy-bonham\/blink-the-brightest\">Listen to the song here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the World Has the Nerve to Keep Turning &#8212; by Tracy Bonham Oh greedy one oh greedy two Did you do what you could do For crippled one or crippled two? A can of beans a sugar tooth? You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100863,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions\/100863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}