{"id":4332,"date":"2022-04-03T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T09:37:48","slug":"4332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4332","title":{"rendered":"In The Wake Of Your Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gang of Youths - in the wake of your leave (Official Video)\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5Py3TP9kgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>So as you canyoneered from our world upwards<br>And the angels took their place<br>I was the loser at your funeral<br>No emotion conveyed<br>It was drawn out in vain<br>And the idiot I am just figured<br>In the wake of your leave<br>That I&#8217;d never hear from you again<br>And then I&#8217;d sing<br>With all this feeling<br>That your spirit would afford me<br>My hand<br>On heart<br>It&#8217;s not a thing that I&#8217;ve been dreaming of<br>And it goes without my blessing<br>And leaves me in a rut<br>But it comes and goes<br>And shows me all I&#8217;m missing<br>And it comes and goes<br>I was there at the backstage trying<br>But the words they never came<br>And I was available for a statement but I just<br>Hung my head in shame<br>It felt nothing to me<br>All the ceremony I&#8217;d wasted<br>And then I&#8217;d thank them leave<br>And say &#8220;God bless you all, goodnight&#8221;<br>Then I&#8217;d think<br>The grave was turning<br>And that nothing could absolve me<br>My hand<br>On heart<br>It&#8217;s not a thing that I&#8217;ve been dreaming of<br>And it throws me without warning<br>And leaves me in the dust<br>But it comes and goes<br>And fills me when I&#8217;m empty<br>Then it comes and goes<br>And I will need it when it&#8217;s gone<br>It quakes<br>And moves<br>Then breaks<br>Then shatters over me<br>In shapes of all these<br>Quiet sacred things I need<br>My hand<br>On heart<br>If there&#8217;s a line or something in these songs<br>That are worthy of some mention<br>You&#8217;re free to let me know<br>But it comes and grows<br>And leaves me in my weakness<br>And it comes and goes<br>My hand<br>On heart<br>It&#8217;s not a thing that I&#8217;ve been dreaming of<br>And it goes without my blessing<br>And leaves me in a rut<br>But it comes and goes<br>And holds me when I&#8217;m sleepless<br>Then it comes and shows<br>How I need you when you&#8217;re gone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}