{"id":11933,"date":"2017-05-01T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2017-05-01T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:12:08","slug":"blue-state-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/blue-state-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue State Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epiphone US map guitar, source unknown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I talked to all my Congress-critters<\/p>\n

Every one agreed<\/p>\n

That health care is a human right<\/p>\n

And speech \u2013 it should be free<\/p>\n

And they\u2019d protect those things \u2013 and more<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 but it\u2019s not all up to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got those living in a blue state blues.<\/p>\n

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The power, it has shifted<\/p>\n

The vote has turned bright red<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t protect clean water but<\/p>\n

They care who’s in your bed<\/p>\n

And if they fight with Kim Jong Un<\/p>\n

We might all wake up dead<\/p>\n

I got those living in a blue state blues.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I stood up for Bernie (oops)<\/p>\n

Though I was always sure<\/p>\n

That when I hit the ballot box<\/p>\n

My vote would go to her<\/p>\n

And now we\u2019re stuck with this half wit<\/p>\n

Illiterate poseur<\/p>\n

I got those living in a blue state blues.<\/p>\n

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Each morning when I read the news<\/p>\n

I’m paralyzed with fear<\/p>\n

Our rickety democracy<\/p>\n

Won\u2019t last another year<\/p>\n

I swear I won\u2019t go back to their<\/p>\n

Nostalgic yesteryear<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got those living in a blue state blues.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The blues will get right in you<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll burn out all your light<\/p>\n

And it can feel like we\u2019re all stuck<\/p>\n

In endless blackened night<\/p>\n

But there is only one thing left<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s to bring the fight<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got those I\u2019ll show you what makes America great there\u2019s a place you can shove all your hate don\u2019t understand let me translate not today motherfucker not today get out of my way\u00a0 I\u2019m gotta get on the phone and call Congress again<\/em> and you know how much I hate talking on phone god damn I’m glad resistbot <\/a>is a thing living in a blue state blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got those living in a blue state I’m not sure anything I do matters blues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":11698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11938,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}