{"id":8086,"date":"2014-01-06T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:24","slug":"achingly-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2014\/01\/06\/achingly-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Achingly Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This. <\/p>\n<p>This may seem like hyperbole, but singing like this &#8212; the lyrics, the music, the passion and love &#8212; makes me believe in God. (I thank my brother for giving me their CD; it&#8217;s all gorgeously sung.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1Dgw6GHfrg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the embed doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/b1Dgw6GHfrg\">here<\/a>. And to see lyrics&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not your eyes<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not what you say<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not your laughter<br \/>\nThat gives you away<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re just lonely<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been lonely, too long<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you&#8217;re acting your thin disguise<br \/>\nAll your perfectly delivered lines<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t fool me<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been lonely, too long<\/p>\n<p>Let me in the wall<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve built around<br \/>\nWe can light a match<br \/>\nAnd burn it down<br \/>\nLet me hold your hand<br \/>\nAnd dance &#8217;round and &#8217;round the flames<br \/>\nIn front of us<br \/>\nDust to dust<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve held your head up<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve fought the fight<br \/>\nYou bear the scars<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve done your time<br \/>\nListen to me<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been lonely, too long<\/p>\n<p>Let me in the walls<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve built around<br \/>\nWe can light a match<br \/>\nAnd burn them down<br \/>\nLet me hold your hand<br \/>\nAnd dance &#8217;round and &#8217;round the flames<br \/>\nIn front of us<br \/>\nDust to dust<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re like a mirror, reflecting me<br \/>\nTakes one to know one, so take it from me<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been lonely<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been lonely, too long<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been lonely<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been lonely, too long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This. This may seem like hyperbole, but singing like this &#8212; the lyrics, the music, the passion and love &#8212; makes me believe in God. (I thank my brother for giving me their CD; it&#8217;s all gorgeously sung.) If the embed doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; here. And to see lyrics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}