{"id":291,"date":"2007-06-11T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=291"},"modified":"2007-06-11T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:19:03","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-heart-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week – Heart of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something that I think we, as humans, all struggle with, is having the courage to forgive when we’ve been wronged in some way. This gets even harder when the person you need to forgive is someone you care about very deeply. Don Henley explored this in a song titled Heart of the Matter<\/a><\/em>. Here’s an excerpt of the lyrics:<\/p>\n

The trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness
\nThey’re the very things – we kill I guess…
\nOh pride and competition
\nCannot fill these empty arms
\nAnd the work I put between us
\nyou know it doesn’t keep me warm<\/p>\n

I’m learning to live without you now
\nBut I miss you, baby
\nAnd the more I know, the less I understand
\nAll the things I thought I’d figured out
\nI have to learn again
\nI’ve been trying to get down
\nto the heart of the matter
\nBut everything changes
\nand my friends seem to scatter
\nBut I think it’s about…forgiveness
\nForgiveness
\nEven if, even if, you don’t love me anymore<\/p>\n

There are people in your life who’ve come and gone
\nThey let you down, you know they hurt your pride
\nYou better put it all behind you baby; cause’ life goes on
\nIf you keep carryin’ that anger, it’ll eat you up inside, baby<\/em><\/p>\n

That last line is so true. Who do you need to forgive? What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n

–Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something that I think we, as humans, all struggle with, is having the courage to forgive when we’ve been wronged in some way. This gets even harder when the person you need to forgive is someone you care about very deeply. Don Henley explored this in a song titled Heart of the Matter. Here’s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}