{"id":126,"date":"2016-10-05T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/yellow-balloon\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:10:00","slug":"yellow-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/yellow-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><span>YELLOW BALLOON<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span>\u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry, November 1969<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Chorus<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span>See the Yellow Balloon<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>sailing in the sky<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>See it rise, see it fall<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>over blue shimmering lakes.<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>Wish I was free like that Yellow balloon<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>Wish I was free like that Yellow balloon<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<i><span>Wish I was free like that Yellow balloon.<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Taking deep breaths in the vestal clear air<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and to bathe in the sunshine where<\/span><br \/>\n<span>the rays have no obstruction at all.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Oh I wish I was free like that Yellow balloon<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Heavy rain, stabbing pain<\/span><br \/>\n<span>It falls upon the ground<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Tall grass, field rats<\/span><br \/>\n<span>slug worms, earth worms<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I hide inside the milk churns of my mind.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Tractor wheels ploughing fields<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Balloon is out of tune.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Thick mud, deep puddles.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Too many minds are anxious muddles.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>Wish I were free<\/span><br \/>\n<span>like the yellow balloon.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And the sun shone all of the time.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I&#8217;d sit upon the steeple spires<\/span><br \/>\n<span>High above the city fires,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>high above the mist.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>You toil everyday to earn your pay<\/span><br \/>\n<span>just to stay alive.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>While commercial magnets rob you<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and politicians stick you in their human zoo.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Wish I was free like that yellow balloon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YELLOW BALLOON \u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry, November 1969 Chorus See the Yellow Balloon sailing in the sky See it rise, see it fall over blue shimmering lakes. Wish I was free like that Yellow balloon Wish I was free like that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/yellow-balloon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}