{"id":20877,"date":"2016-04-18T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2016-04-18T23:29:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:29:10","slug":"gilbert-osullivan-alone-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/?p=20877","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert O&#8217;Sullivan &#8211; Alone Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_P-v1BVQn8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOh, in a little while from now<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;m not feeling any less sour<br \/>\nI promise myself to treat myself<br \/>\nAnd visit a nearby tower<br \/>\nAnd climbing to the top<br \/>\nWill throw myself off<br \/>\nIn an effort to make it clear to whoever<br \/>\nWhat it&#8217;s like when you&#8217;re shattered<br \/>\nLeft standing in the lurch at a church<br \/>\nWhere people saying<br \/>\nMy God that&#8217;s tough<br \/>\nShe stood him up<br \/>\nNo point in us remaining<br \/>\nWe may as well go home<br \/>\nAs I did on my own<br \/>\nAlone again naturally<\/p>\n<p>To think that only yesterday<br \/>\nI was cheerful bright and gay<br \/>\nLooking forward to, well who wouldn&#8217;t do<br \/>\nThe role I was about to play<br \/>\nBut as if to knock me down<br \/>\nReality came around<br \/>\nAnd without so much as mere touch<br \/>\nCut me into little pieces<br \/>\nLeaving me to doubt<br \/>\nTalk about God in His mercy<br \/>\nWho, if He really does exist<br \/>\nWhy did He desert me<br \/>\nIn my hour of need<br \/>\nI truly am indeed<br \/>\nAlone again, naturally<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me<br \/>\nThat there are more hearts<br \/>\nBroken in the world that can be mended<br \/>\nLeft unattended<br \/>\nWhat do we do?<br \/>\nWhat do we do?<\/p>\n<p>Now looking back over the years<br \/>\nAnd what ever else that appears<br \/>\nI remember I cried, when my father died<br \/>\nNever wishing to hide the tears<br \/>\nAnd at sixty five years old<br \/>\nMy mother God rest her soul<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t understand why the only man<br \/>\nShe had ever loved had been taken<br \/>\nLeaving her to start<br \/>\nWith a heart so badly broken<br \/>\nDespite encouragement from me<br \/>\nNo words were ever spoken<br \/>\nAnd when she passed away<br \/>\nI cried and cried all day<br \/>\nAlone again naturally<\/p>\n<p>Alone again naturally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[3967,3966],"class_list":["post-20877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-music","tag-alone-again","tag-gilbert-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20878,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions\/20878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konoyarou.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}