{"id":1698,"date":"2015-06-05T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:48:51","slug":"songcraft-nick-drake-way-to-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/songcraft-nick-drake-way-to-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"SongCraft: Nick Drake &#8211; Way To Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-16577\" data-series-id=\"224\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/series\/songcraft\/\">Song Craft<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>\u2018Nick was in some strange way out of time. When you were with him, you always had a sad feeling of him being born in the wrong century. If he would have lived in the 17th Century, at the Elizabethan Court, together with composers like Dowland or William Byrd, he would have been alright. Nick was elegant, honest, a lost romantic &#8211; and at the same time so cool. In brief: the perfect Elizabethan.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Kirby,<\/em> a Cambridge friend of Nick&#8217;s who orchestrated his first 2 albums!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Way To Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you have a word to show what may be done<br \/>\nHave you never heard a way to find the sun<br \/>\nTell me all that you may know<br \/>\nShow me what you have to show<br \/>\nWon\u2019t you come and say<br \/>\nIf you know the way to blue<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen the land living by the breeze<br \/>\nCan you understand a light among the trees<br \/>\nTell me all that you may know<br \/>\nShow me what you have to show<br \/>\nTell us all today<br \/>\nIf you know the way to blue?<\/p>\n<p>Look through time and find your rhyme<br \/>\nTell us what you find<br \/>\nWe will wait<br \/>\nAt your gate<br \/>\nHoping like the blind<\/p>\n<p>Can you now recall all that you have known<br \/>\nWill you never fall<br \/>\nWhen the light has flown<br \/>\nTell me all that you may know<br \/>\nShow me what you have to show<br \/>\nWon\u2019t you come and say<br \/>\nIf you know the way to blue?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-16577 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"224\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/series\/songcraft\/\">Song Craft<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>\u2018Nick was in some strange way out of time. When you were with him, you always had a sad feeling of him being born in the wrong century. If he would have lived in the 17th Century, at the Elizabethan Court, together with composers like Dowland or William Byrd, he would have been alright. Nick was elegant, honest, a lost romantic &#8211; and at the same time so cool. In brief: the perfect Elizabethan.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[161,121,230],"series":[224],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","tag-boo-madly","tag-eyeplug","tag-nick-drake","series-songcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}