{"id":2536,"date":"2023-03-22T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:21:32","slug":"taylor-just-knows-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Just Knows Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow the blog know that I love music. And as you remember from last year, I revealed that I really enjoy Taylor Swift music. As I was listening to her album Red in the car, the song I Almost Do came on &#8211; and as I sang along, I realized that while her song was totally about an ex-boyfriend and not getting back together, the words felt so close to the way I feel at the moment. I realized with just some minor changes, it would be perfect. And so, with all apologies to Taylor Swift for butchering her beautiful song, here is the Lunatic&#8217;s version of &#8220;I Always Do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine a mid-aged man going through significant crisis singing (most likely poorly) to the music of Taylor Swift&#8217;s song, I Almost Do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"verse \">I know this time of night, I&#8217;m still up<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;m tired from a long, hard week<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;m sitting in my chair by the window<br \/>\nScreaming out at the TV, and I bet<br \/>\nIts probably cause you just got beat<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I just wanna tell you<br \/>\nIt takes everything in me still to pick you<\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I wish you would never lose<br \/>\nAnd I hope you know that<br \/>\nEvery time you do, I always do<br \/>\nI always do<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">I bet you think I either moved on or hate you<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause each time you get upset, it makes me cry.<\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">I bet it never, ever occurred to you<br \/>\nThat I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ll pick you and risk another goodbye<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I just wanna tell you<br \/>\nIt takes everything in me still to pick you<\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I wish you would never lose<br \/>\nAnd I hope you know that<br \/>\nEvery time you do, I always do<br \/>\nI always do<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">Ooh, ooh, ooh<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">Oh, we made quite a mess, babe<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s probably better off this way<br \/>\nAnd I confess, baby<br \/>\nIn my dreams, you&#8217;re winning the Big 10<br \/>\nAnd asking me if I wanna try again with you<br \/>\nAnd I always do<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I just wanna tell you<br \/>\nIt takes everything in me still to pick you<\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">And I wish you would never lose<br \/>\nAnd I hope you know that<br \/>\nEvery time you do, I always do<br \/>\nI always do<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">Ooh, ooh, ooh<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"verse \">I know this time of night, I&#8217;m still up<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;m tired from a long hard week<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;m sittin&#8217; in my chair by the window<br \/>\nScreaming out at the TV, and I hope<br \/>\nNext year, you won&#8217;t get easily beat.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow the blog know that I love music. And as you remember from last year, I revealed that I really enjoy Taylor Swift music. As I was listening to her album Red in the car, the song I Almost Do came on &#8211; and as I sang along, I realized that while her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}