{"id":622,"date":"2012-03-03T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2012-03-03T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:39:05","slug":"monterey-pines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=622","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Monterey Pines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m walking through a landscape that is sodden by the rain,<br \/>\nSkirting \u2018round the puddles on this flooded, muddy lane,<br \/>\nAll colour has been leached out, there are forty shades of grey<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s a string of Monterey Pines<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against a grey sky.<\/p>\n<p>My collar, it is turned up, my cap pulled down so low,<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing here, don\u2019t know where to go,<br \/>\nI\u2019m wishing I were somewhere where I\u2019d be warm and dry,<br \/>\nFar away from those Monterey Pines<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against a grey sky.<\/p>\n<p>The meadows, they are weeping, the clouds are crying rain,<br \/>\nThe dripping of the hedges has hypnotised my brain,<br \/>\nThis unrelenting Nothing makes you want to die<br \/>\nAnd get far away from those Monterey Pines<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against a grey sky.<\/p>\n<p>The bleak and barren hillside wears those pines just like a frown,<br \/>\nI wish I had a chainsaw, I\u2019d go up there and chop them down,<br \/>\nAnd build myself a tall ship and sail away one night<br \/>\nAnd never again have to look at those Monterey Pines<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against a grey sky.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in my dreams I\u2019m lying on a balcony in Spain,<br \/>\nOr some country where they don\u2019t need fifty different words for rain<br \/>\nAnd sometimes, when we\u2019ve visitors from Ireland, I will lie<br \/>\nAnd say,\u201dYeah, you know I kind of miss those Monterey Pines<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against the sky,<br \/>\nBlack against a grey<br \/>\nSteely grey,<br \/>\nSodden grey, Irish sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Monterey Pines I\u2019m walking through a landscape that is sodden by the rain, Skirting \u2018round the puddles on this flooded, muddy lane, All colour has been leached out, there are forty shades of grey And there\u2019s a string of Monterey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":562,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-a2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}