{"id":42,"date":"2016-08-07T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-07-03T03:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T07:01:44","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-the-table-the-beautiful-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/lyric-of-the-week-the-table-the-beautiful-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: The Table (The Beautiful South)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>I can’t think of many songs written about furniture. Leave it to Paul Heaton and David Rotheray to write a song about a table. And make you want to listen to it over and over.<\/p>\n

Enjoy The Table<\/em><\/a> by The Beautiful South<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This table has four sturdy legs<\/em>
\nAnd a heart of very near wild oak<\/em>
\nWhen others would have screamed out loud, my friend<\/em>
\nThis one never even spoke<\/em><\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nI’ve been sat upon<\/em>
\nI’ve been spat upon<\/em>
\nI’ve been treated like a bed<\/em>
\nBeen carried like a stretcher<\/em>
\nWhen someone thinks they’re dead<\/em>
\nI’ve been dined upon<\/em>
\nI’ve been wined upon<\/em>
\nI’ve been taken for a fool<\/em>
\nTaken for a desk<\/em>
\nwhen they should have been at school<\/em><\/p>\n

This table’s been pushed against the wall<\/em>
\nWhen tempers, well tempers flare at night<\/em>
\nBanged upon with knuckles clenched my friend<\/em>
\nWhen someone thinks that they are right<\/em><\/p>\n

Repeat Chorus<\/p>\n

Tables only turn when tables learn<\/em>
\nPut me on a bonfire, watch me burn<\/em>
\nTreat me with some dignity<\/em>
\nDon’t treat me like a slave<\/em>
\nOr I’ll turn into the coffin in your grave<\/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 can’t think of many songs written about furniture. Leave it to Paul Heaton and David Rotheray to write a song about a table. And make you want to listen to it over and over. Enjoy The Table by The Beautiful South. This table has four sturdy legs And a heart of very near wild … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: The Table (The Beautiful South)<\/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":[16],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week","tag-furniture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}