{"id":208,"date":"2021-02-28T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:41:01","slug":"sweet-sings-the-siren","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/sweet-sings-the-siren\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sings the Siren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\n Sweet sings the siren, o'er salt-water foam\n The sailors who took me so far from my home\n Are raving and screaming, and clawing their ears\n Trying to block out the song that they hear\n \n \n Though I hear the singing, ringing and clear\n My heart is not captured by longing or fear\n I wait for my jailer to rush to the fray\n With the singers as cover, I steal away\n \n \n Though late in the night, without the sun's rays\n I hurry my flight, while my captors are dazed\n But enough of the Stars, peek through the veil\n And I follow with ease, the Milky Way's trail\n \n \n <strong>Refrain<\/strong>\n Though I'm born from the stars,\n And walk on the wind\n I still have to hobble through sorrow and sin\n Creatures and vagabonds swarm for my light \n To keep like a jewel, to warm them at night\n \n \n I watch the sphinx leave, and stare at my palm\n Though her fortune held evil, my heart is still calm\n After fortnights of riddles, and terrible tests\n Old questions were answered, and air floods my chest\n \n \n For leagues, out to Stygia, the song could be heard\n Over mountains, and oceans, echoed each word\n After service, and solitude, as treasure or slave\n I'd live in no harem,  adorn no king's grave\n \n \n <strong>Refrain x 2<\/strong>\n \nVerse\n <strong>\/ Dm Am G Am \/ Dm Am G Am \/ <\/strong>\nRefrain<strong>\n \/ FC G Am \/ Dm Am CG Am \/ <\/strong> <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet sings the siren, o&#8217;er salt-water foam The sailors who took me so far from my home Are raving and screaming, and clawing their ears Trying to block out the<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/sweet-sings-the-siren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Sings the Siren<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}