{"id":997,"date":"2016-01-17T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=997"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T22:06:54","slug":"ancestor-there-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2016\/01\/ancestor-there-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor (there will be)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uid9x2chQVM\">Ancestor (there will be)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that it is time<br \/>\nI feel it all the time<br \/>\nBuilt into my design<br \/>\nI give it all to you<br \/>\nAll of it can go<br \/>\nAll the face\u2019s glow<br \/>\nthe evening of the show<br \/>\nThe dream is our feed<br \/>\nA cut and pasted breed<br \/>\ndying to reseed<br \/>\nAgain the crowd will drown<br \/>\nthe faces on the ground<br \/>\nBlinging on their knees<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night<br \/>\nWe gathered to the light<br \/>\nThe casts of past felt right<br \/>\nThe current disappoints<br \/>\nThe streaming leads to streams<br \/>\nof seaming scene to scenes<br \/>\nThe never-ending dream<br \/>\nHow will we evolve<br \/>\nthe apathy dissolve<br \/>\nRound and round and round revolve<br \/>\nMy calling card is lost<br \/>\nin the coming holocaust<br \/>\nand its sounding trump exhaust<\/p>\n<p><strong>I close the shades, try not to breath<br \/>\nI call my mom, try not to see<br \/>\nI fold my hands, I cannot hear<br \/>\nmy ancestor inside of me<br \/>\ntelling me, \u201cDear, that\u2019s not fruit<br \/>\nhanging from our family tree\u201d<br \/>\nDrowned out by the wisdom of an mp3\u2019d<br \/>\n\u201cLet it be, let it be, let it be\u201d<br \/>\nFucking humanity<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My sister wants me to stop<br \/>\nTurn myself into the cops<br \/>\nI pop back the pop pop pop<br \/>\nThe gun feels natural in my hand<br \/>\nLet freedom ring from the farm<br \/>\nover anxiety\u2019s alarm<br \/>\nWe chugalug the lucky charm<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a pill for everyone<br \/>\nPass the cup down to your son<br \/>\nthe barrel of monkeys in your gun<br \/>\nShoot out into outer space<br \/>\nInsure the human race<br \/>\na universe to displace<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nI close the shades, try not to breath<br \/>\nI call my mom, try not to see<br \/>\nI fold my hands, I cannot hear<br \/>\nmy ancestor inside of me<br \/>\ntelling me, \u201cDear, that\u2019s not fruit<br \/>\nhanging from our family tree\u201d<br \/>\nDrowned out by the wisdom of an mp3\u2019d<br \/>\n\u201cLet it be, let it be, let it be\u201d<br \/>\nFucking humanity<br \/>\nThere will be an answer\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestor (there will be) I know that it is time I feel it all the time Built into my design I give it all to you All of it can go All the face\u2019s glow the evening of the show The dream is our feed A cut and pasted breed dying to reseed Again the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2016\/01\/ancestor-there-will-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancestor (there will be)<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-song","category-on-my-mind"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}