{"id":1479,"date":"2004-11-21T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2004-11-21T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T11:19:00","slug":"rem-lyrics-my-favorite-new-rem-song-walk-unafraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/rem-lyrics-my-favorite-new-rem-song-walk-unafraid","title":{"rendered":"REM lyrics &#8211; my favorite new REM song &#8216;Walk Unafraid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>s the sun comes up, as the moon goes down<br \/>\nthese heavy notions creep around<br \/>\nit makes me think<br \/>\nlong ago I was brought into<br \/>\nthis life a little lamb<br \/>\na little lamb<br \/>\ncourageous, stumbling<br \/>\nfearless was my middle name.<br \/>\nbut somewhere there I<br \/>\nlost my way<br \/>\neveryone walks the same<br \/>\npecting me to step<br \/>\nthe narrow path they&#8217;ve laid<br \/>\nthey claim to<br \/>\nwalk unafraid<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be clumsy instead<br \/>\nhold my love me or leave me high.<\/p>\n<p>say &#8220;keep within the boundaries if you want<br \/>\nto play&#8221;.<br \/>\nsay &#8220;contradiction only makes it harder&#8221;.<br \/>\nhow can I be<br \/>\nwhat I want to be?<br \/>\nwhen all I want to do is strip away<br \/>\nthese stilled constraints<br \/>\nand crush this charade<br \/>\nshred this sad masquerade<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need no persuading<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll trip, fall, pick myselfe up and<br \/>\nwalk unafraid<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be clumsy instead<br \/>\nhold my love me or leave me high.<\/p>\n<p>if I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go<br \/>\nI just want to hold my head up high<br \/>\nI din&#8217;t care what I have to step over<br \/>\nI&#8217;m prepared to look you in the eye<br \/>\nlook me in the eye<br \/>\nand if you see familiarity<br \/>\nthen celebrate the contradiction<br \/>\nhelp me when I fall to<br \/>\nwalk unafraid<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be clumsy instead<br \/>\nhold my love me or leave me high.<br \/>\nwalk unafraid<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be clumsy instead<br \/>\nhold my love me or leave me high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s the sun comes up, as the moon goes down these heavy notions creep around it makes me think long ago I was brought into this life a little lamb a little lamb courageous, stumbling fearless was my middle name. but somewhere there I lost my way everyone walks the same pecting me to step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}