{"id":87,"date":"2010-10-26T05:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxymoronica.net\/?p=87"},"modified":"2010-10-26T05:18:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:18:46","slug":"tom-petty-runnin-down-a-dream-seattle-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/2010\/10\/26\/tom-petty-runnin-down-a-dream-seattle-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty &#8211; Runnin&#8217; Down A Dream (Seattle Interpretation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read these lyrics with my interpretations in parentheses, while listening to this song:<\/strong><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5tF_-AkU6U\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5tF_-AkU6U<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day (clearly not in Seattle),\u00a0the sun beat down\u00a0(again, not Seattle)<br \/>\nI had the radio on (\u2018till I went through a tunnel),\u00a0I was drivin&#8217;\u00a0(well, stuck in traffic)<br \/>\ntrees flew by (so windy), me and Del were singin&#8217; (Seattle) little Runaway<br \/>\nI was flyin&#8217;\u00a0(off a bridge)<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah runnin&#8217; down a dream\u00a0(in Seattle)<br \/>\nthat never would come to me\u00a0(thanks Seattle)<br \/>\nworkin&#8217; on a mystery (a new chapter in life), goin&#8217; wherever it leads\u00a0(who knows)<br \/>\nrunnin&#8217; down a dream<\/p>\n<p>I felt so good (with 90 days of sun) like anything was possible\u00a0(hiking, exploring the outdoors)<br \/>\nI hit cruise control (in the HOV lane) and rubbed my eyes\u00a0(crap theres a cop)<br \/>\nthe last three days the rain was un-stoppable\u00a0(welcome to Seattle)<br \/>\nit was always cold, no sunshine\u00a0(good old Seattle)<\/p>\n<p>(Repeat Chorus)<\/p>\n<p>I rolled on (home from work) as the sky grew dark\u00a0(at like 5pm)<br \/>\nI put the pedal down (on the brake) to make some time\u00a0(sitting in traffic)<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s something good (home) waitin&#8217; down this road\u00a0(27 hours away)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pickin&#8217; up (not much) whatever&#8217;s mine\u00a0(small studio apartment)<\/p>\n<p>(Chorus Out)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read these lyrics with my interpretations in parentheses, while listening to this song:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5tF_-AkU6U It was a beautiful day (clearly not in Seattle),\u00a0the sun beat down\u00a0(again, not Seattle) I had the radio on (\u2018till I went through a tunnel),\u00a0I was drivin&#8217;\u00a0(well, stuck in traffic) trees flew by (so windy), me and Del were singin&#8217; (Seattle) little [&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":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tyler.in\/reallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}