{"id":28,"date":"2016-07-24T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-07-23T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:42:56","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-merry-go-round-kacey-musgraves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/24\/lyric-of-the-week-merry-go-round-kacey-musgraves\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Merry Go ‘Round (Kacey Musgraves)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of modern country music. Classic country? Sure. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but the current crop of Billy Rays and Billy Bobs just don’t do it for me. However, when I first heard this week’s song, its clever chorus hooked me in and I was sold.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Merry Go ‘Round<\/em><\/a> by Kacey Musgraves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you ain’t got two kids by twenty-one<\/em>
\nYou’re probably gonna die alone<\/em>
\nLeast that’s what tradition told you<\/em>
\nAnd it don’t matter if you don’t believe<\/em>
\nCome Sunday mornin’<\/em>
\nYou’d best be there in the front row like you’re s’posed to<\/em>
\nSame hurt in every heart<\/em>
\nSame trailer, different park<\/em><\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nMama’s hooked on Mary Kay<\/em>
\nBrother’s hooked on Mary Jane<\/em>
\nAnd Daddy’s hooked on Mary two doors down<\/em>
\nMary, Mary quite contrary<\/em>
\nWe get bored, so we get married<\/em>
\nJust like dust, we settle in this town<\/em>
\nOn this broken merry go ’round and ’round and ’round we go<\/em>
\nWhere it stops nobody knows<\/em>
\nAnd it ain’t slowin’ down<\/em>
\nThis merry go ’round<\/em><\/p>\n

We think the first time’s good enough<\/em>
\nSo we hold on to high school love<\/em>
\nSayin’ we won’t end up like our parents<\/em>
\nTiny little boxes in a row<\/em>
\nAin’t what you want, it’s what you know<\/em>
\nJust happy in the shoes you’re wearin’<\/em>
\nSame cheques we’re always cashin’ to buy a little more distraction<\/em><\/p>\n

Chorus<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary, Mary, quite contrary<\/em>
\nWe’re so bored until we’re buried<\/em>
\nJust like dust, we settle in this town<\/em>
\nOn this broken merry go ’round<\/em>
\nMerry go ’round<\/em><\/p>\n

Jack and Jill went up the hill<\/em>
\nJack burned out on booze and pills<\/em>
\nAnd Mary had a little lamb<\/em>
\nMary just don’t give a damn no more<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining or clever 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<\/em> find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of modern country music. Classic country? Sure. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but the current crop of Billy Rays and Billy Bobs just don’t do it for me. However, when I first heard this week’s song, its clever chorus hooked me in and I was sold. … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Merry Go ‘Round (Kacey Musgraves)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-28","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-s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}