{"id":3584,"date":"2023-08-10T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:28:41","slug":"3584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>#8 of 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>you sang to me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i was falling down<br>invisibly<br>when you sang to me<br><br>i was all mixed up<br>and missing pieces<br>then you sang to me<br><br>blood<br>soaking through my shirt<br>a well of silence<br>a bundle of nerves<br>i tunnelled to the lighthouse<br>for the mercy of words<br>i\u2019d never have heard<br>here<br>i\u2019d never have heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as a dial tone<br>the border guards<br>barely glanced at me<br>i was hanging up<br>a missing person<br>then you answered me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>swooned<br>in your summoned rain<br>of skeleton keys<br>that sprang us<br>from our cages<br>and drowned out the advances<br>of a coming ice age<br>we have to be brave<br>dear<br>we have to be brave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(from \u201craised by swans is the name of a man, vol. 2: run with the silent wildfires\u201d. available now. all lyrics and music written and performed by e. howden)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/680ErAywlAwmVNAjHjBC8Z?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#8 of 20. you sang to me i was falling downinvisiblywhen you sang to me i was all mixed upand missing piecesthen you sang to me bloodsoaking through my shirta well of silencea bundle of nervesi tunnelled to the lighthousefor the mercy of wordsi\u2019d never have heardherei\u2019d never have heard as a dial tonethe border <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/?p=3584\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5PGUp-3584","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisedbyswans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}