{"id":610,"date":"2020-09-09T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2020-09-17T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:50:26","slug":"blue-sky-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=610","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sky Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Sky Song 2020\" width=\"819\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7isfu99PLfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The ties that bind unraveled on an August night.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure where that first line came from though it might have been from the ancient Gibson I lifted off of the mansion wall in Pawling, New York all those years ago. And there they were. Chords, progressing with a wistfulness and melancholy all their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>She left his tired love behind, in a laundromat, in black and white.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there I was, feeling my way in the dark towards this story of slow, painful discernment. \u201cBlue Sky Song.\u201d The whispered closing counterpoint to the record\u2019s lead-off title track, \u201cLost in America.\u201d A seeker\u2019s spiritual longing, a poser\u2019s empty angst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The powers that be decided it was time to let him go.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve been there all along, those two. The seeker and the poser. The convert and the con man. In every song. In every novel. Fin and Ransom. Light and dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>So he went rolling like a tumbleweed across the desert of New Mexico.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then, tucked about two thirds of the way through, a third perspective emerges. Deeper than the seeker? Deeper than the poser?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Oh that time it was not wasted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>It was the way it had to be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Whatever sorrow that he tasted set him free.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s to hoping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/blue-sky-song\/62164193?i=62164181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"78\" src=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/applemusic-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3zvqlMFQ5B2XHF9yMrKAFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"87\" src=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/spotify-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\"> Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">Midnight Ghost &#8211; 9\/4\/2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ties that bind unraveled on an August night. 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