{"id":128,"date":"2016-10-05T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/city-smokestacked-serenade\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:05:00","slug":"city-smokestacked-serenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/city-smokestacked-serenade\/","title":{"rendered":"City &#8211; Smokestacked serenade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><span>CITY &#8211; SMOKESTACKED SERANADE<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span>\u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry August 1974<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>O City&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Why does inspiration no longer tremble in your veins?<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You have begat a desert of sundried grains.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>O City&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Like a clenched fist in the garden of the Lord.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The flowers bent and bowed where vapours<\/span><br \/>\n<span>out of you poured.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>I stand here stranded in your blackened pit<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Beaten down by your fast and furious whip.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>O city&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Your dark eyes glisten and seduce me to your woos<\/span><br \/>\n<span>You dark disgusting lady, you got me trembling in your shoes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Time cracks his whip and breathes life into the fools<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Mother nature&#8217;s raped by man&#8217;s pneumatic tools<\/span><br \/>\n<span>People just sit around and watch&#8230;.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY &#8211; SMOKESTACKED SERANADE \u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry August 1974 O City&#8230; Why does inspiration no longer tremble in your veins? You have begat a desert of sundried grains. O City&#8230; Like a clenched fist in the garden of the Lord. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/city-smokestacked-serenade\/\">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\/128"}],"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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}