{"id":11831,"date":"2005-12-19T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/19\/painted-egypt"},"modified":"2005-12-19T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:48:00","slug":"painted-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2005\/12\/19\/painted-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.online.no\/~harc\/clubinfo\/muralpainting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/home.online.no\/~harc\/clubinfo\/muralpainting.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>VERSE:<br \/>I don\u2019t want to leave here<br \/>I don\u2019t want to stay<br \/>It feels like pinching to me either way<br \/>And the places I long for the most are the places where I\u2019ve been<br \/>They are calling after me like a long lost friend<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about losing faith<br \/>It\u2019s not about trust<br \/>It\u2019s all about comfortable<br \/>When you move so much<br \/>And the place I was wasn\u2019t perfect<br \/>But I had found a way to live<br \/>It wasn\u2019t milk or honey<br \/>But then neither is this<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>I\u2019ve been painting pictures of Egypt<br \/>Leaving out what it lacks<br \/>The future seems so hard and I want to go back<br \/>But the places that used to fit me<br \/>Cannot hold the things I&#8217;ve learned<br \/>And those roads were closed off to me<br \/>While my back was turned<\/p>\n<p>VERSE:<br \/>The past is so tangible<br \/>I know it by heart<br \/>Familiar things are never easy to discard<br \/>And I was dying for some freedom<br \/>But now I hesitate to go<br \/>I am caught between the promise and the things I know<\/p>\n<p>ENDING:<br \/>If it comes too quick I may not recognize it<br \/>Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?<br \/>If it comes too quick I may not appreciate it<br \/>Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;Painting Picture of Egypt&#8221; by Sara Groves.<\/p>\n<p>~ Just wanted to share this rockin&#8217; awesome song with you. ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERSE:I don\u2019t want to leave hereI don\u2019t want to stayIt feels like pinching to me either wayAnd the places I long for the most are the places where I\u2019ve beenThey are calling after me like a long lost friend It\u2019s not about losing faithIt\u2019s not about trustIt\u2019s all about comfortableWhen you move so muchAnd the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2005\/12\/19\/painted-egypt\/#more-11831\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}