{"id":102,"date":"2016-12-25T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-12-25T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T04:20:36","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-wonderful-life-the-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/25\/lyric-of-the-week-wonderful-life-the-tories\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Wonderful Life (The Tories)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>For the remainder of this year, I’m focusing on some of my all-time favorite lyrics. The Tories<\/strong>, as well as many other amazing bands, came to my attention through an online email distribution list of rabid power pop fans called Audities<\/em>. Because it’s Christmas and you’re sick of seeing Jimmy Stewart in black and white on your HDTV, here’s a song about a movie.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Wonderful Life<\/em> by The Tories<\/a> (from 1997’s Wonderful Life<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Gower Drugstore
\nAnd Bedford Falls is watching
\nStones breaking windows
\n<\/em>Lasso the Moon for Mary<\/em><\/p>\n

I wanna feel like George Bailey did
\nKissing the staircase and holding the wife
\nBells will be ringing when angels get their wings
\nIt’s such a beautiful
\nOh what a wonderful life<\/em><\/p>\n

One wish be granted
\nA life without existence
\nRicher than Potter
\nA wealth of friends surrounding<\/em><\/p>\n

I wanna feel like George Bailey did
\nKissing the staircase and holding the wife
\nBells will be ringing when angels get their wings
\nIt’s such a beautiful
\nOh what a wonderful life<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the remainder of this year, I’m focusing on some of my all-time favorite lyrics. The Tories, as well as many other amazing bands, came to my attention through an online email distribution list of rabid power pop fans called Audities. Because it’s Christmas and you’re sick of seeing Jimmy Stewart in black and white … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Wonderful Life (The Tories)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}