{"id":274,"date":"2004-11-10T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/15\/274\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T08:49:12","slug":"father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/10\/father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Father and Son<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Cat Stevens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Father<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not time to make a change,<br \/>\nJust relax, take it easy.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re still young, that&#8217;s your fault,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much you have to know.<br \/>\nFind a girl, settle down,<br \/>\nIf you want you can marry.<br \/>\nLook at me, i am old, but i&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>I was once like you are now, and i know that it&#8217;s not easy,<br \/>\nTo be calm when you&#8217;ve found something going on.<br \/>\nBut take your time, think a lot,<br \/>\nWhy, think of everything you&#8217;ve got.<br \/>\nFor you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.<\/p>\n<p>Son<br \/>\nHow can i try to explain, when i do he turns away again.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always been the same, same old story.<br \/>\nFrom the moment i could talk i was ordered to listen.<br \/>\nNow there&#8217;s a way and i know that i have to go away.<br \/>\nI know i have to go.<\/p>\n<p>Father<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not time to make a change,<br \/>\nJust sit down, take it slowly.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re still young, that&#8217;s your fault,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much you have to go through.<br \/>\nFind a girl, settle down,<br \/>\nIf you want you can marry.<br \/>\nLook at me, i am old, but i&#8217;m happy.<br \/>\n(son&#8211; away away away, i know i have to<br \/>\nMake this decision alone &#8211; no)<br \/>\nSon<br \/>\nAll the times that i cried, keeping all the things i knew inside,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard, but it&#8217;s harder to ignore it.<br \/>\nIf they were right, i&#8217;d agree, but it&#8217;s them you know not me.<br \/>\nNow there&#8217;s a way and i know that i have to go away.<br \/>\nI know i have to go.<br \/>\n(father&#8211; stay stay stay, why must you go and<br \/>\nMake this decision alone?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2021\/02\/07\/the-storm-a-teen-and-a-musical-poem\/\" title=\"The Storm &#8211; A Teen, and a musical poem.\">The Storm &#8211; A Teen, and a musical poem.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/21\/happy-now\/\" title=\"Happy Now\">Happy Now<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/18\/park-life\/\" title=\"Park Life\">Park Life<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/16\/thats-entertainment\/\" title=\"That&#8217;s Entertainment\">That&#8217;s Entertainment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/21\/tell-me-your-secrets-and-ask-me-your-questions\/\" title=\"Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions.\">Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father and Son Cat Stevens Father It&#8217;s not time to make a change, Just relax, take it easy. You&#8217;re still young, that&#8217;s your fault, There&#8217;s so much you have to know. Find a girl, settle down, If you want you can marry. Look at me, i am old, but i&#8217;m happy. I was once like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/10\/father-and-son\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Father and Son&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-lyrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}