{"id":5032,"date":"2016-08-07T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2016-08-07T22:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:26:56","slug":"shake-your-head-as-the-world-just-nods-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5032","title":{"rendered":"Shake Your Head As the World Just Nods Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5034\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?attachment_id=5034\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5034\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-07-at-4.25.26-PM.png\" alt=\"Echolyn\" width=\"705\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-07-at-4.25.26-PM.png 705w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-07-at-4.25.26-PM-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Echolyn<\/p><\/div>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5032-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/As-the-World.mp3<\/a><\/audio>(As the World by Echolyn)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the World&#8221;<br \/>\nLyrics by Brett Kull and Ray Weston<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stretching my ears they&#8217;re open and not withstanding<br \/>\nTo rhythmic syncopation, harmonic dissonance<br \/>\nI move to a groove that will never stop swinging<br \/>\nAnd I sing to a song that never ends<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pushing my brain to think a little harder<br \/>\nTo learn from the simple and question the complex<br \/>\nIf logic and reason are the gods that you follow<br \/>\nThen you&#8217;ll drown in your soul&#8217;s emptiness<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too easy to &#8220;be in&#8221; with a platform<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too easy to know what to say<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s harder to sit when everyone else is standing<br \/>\nTo shake your head as the world just nods away<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m raising my voice to shout a little louder<br \/>\nTo answer your questions and ease the tension<br \/>\nIn my argument arrogance has no friend<br \/>\nAnd I hate to be cushioned in a fight<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too easy to &#8220;be in&#8221; with a hair style<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s to easy to go with the flow<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to see through a haze of popularity<br \/>\nTo shake your head as the world just nods away<\/p>\n<p>Fever high, blind man clapper<br \/>\nFlag-waving monkey man<br \/>\nNever hear past own mouth flappin&#8217;<br \/>\nAll the answers, palm of your hand<\/p>\n<p>Herd mover platform weaver<br \/>\nChange topic, slight of hand<br \/>\nIssue bender, big speech giver<br \/>\nPower tie, and photo tan<\/p>\n<p>Ray: Fashions and fads a fictitious flirtation the foremost foundation to fit in<br \/>\nBrett: Fashions and fads a flirting the foremost foundation fit it<br \/>\nChris: Fashions fads flirting foremost to fit in<\/p>\n<p>Ray: It&#8217;s talk at the table the TV and tabloids the telephone trivia and talk show trash<br \/>\nBrett: Talk at the table and tabloids telephone trivia talk show trash<br \/>\nChris: Talk at the table trivia talk show trash<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we get caught up in making the right impression<br \/>\nIs the commission really worth the sale that we pitch?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not really big on justifying intentions<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s good then let it grow<br \/>\nOn its own we&#8217;ll soon be rich<\/p>\n<p>Turning as the world<br \/>\nTurn a turn around turn around turn around<br \/>\nWatch as the world turns around<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too easy to &#8220;be in&#8221; on the new wave<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too easy to know how to play<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s harder to &#8220;be in&#8221; for the sake of your own being<br \/>\nTo shake your head as the world just nods away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(As the World by Echolyn) &#8220;As the World&#8221; Lyrics by Brett Kull and Ray Weston I&#8217;m stretching my ears they&#8217;re open and not withstanding To rhythmic syncopation, harmonic dissonance I move to a groove that will never stop swinging And (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5032\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}