
{"id":1002,"date":"2008-09-16T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T05:39:35","slug":"lyrics-veronika-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics: Veronika (Tricky)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Tricky album out last week.  It&#8217;s the first one in five years and it&#8217;s really good.  Best one since Maxinquaye.  This is one of my favorite tracks from the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Tricky (featuring Veronika Coassolo)<br \/>\n<strong>Song:<\/strong> Veronika<br \/>\n<strong>Album:<\/strong> Knowle West Boy<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n<p>Dead<br \/>\nGuilty now<br \/>\nHere there&#8217;s no mercy for you<br \/>\nI stand<\/p>\n<p>Burning your image<br \/>\nYour lies<br \/>\nAnd your hands<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re dead<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m building a prayer for the memories<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand<br \/>\nYour life doesn&#8217;t bother me now<br \/>\nI&#8217;m discharged<\/p>\n<p>I kill yourself<br \/>\nJust to feel good<br \/>\nAnd make my life<br \/>\nBetter without your trace<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re dead<br \/>\nBuried under this ground<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n<p>Damned<br \/>\nBut I felt the shame of the cheap life<br \/>\nFor this<br \/>\nI&#8217;m blessed<\/p>\n<p>You kept on poisoning all of my days<br \/>\nAnd for this<br \/>\nBrutally choking<br \/>\nSo I bought a smile<br \/>\nFrom death<\/p>\n<p>The other side of it<br \/>\nThought of your demise<br \/>\nWas my life<br \/>\nAnd I love<br \/>\nAll my survival skills<\/p>\n<p>I loved you too<br \/>\nBut you tried to kill me as well<br \/>\nToo bad<br \/>\nYou didn&#8217;t give me respect<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n<p>If I had been on your mind on that day<br \/>\nHolding on to your thoughts<br \/>\nTo your mind that way<br \/>\nYou coulda never jumped down in those arms<br \/>\nYou coulda never left my heart cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Tricky album out last week. It&#8217;s the first one in five years and it&#8217;s really good. Best one since Maxinquaye. This is one of my favorite tracks from the album. Artist: Tricky (featuring Veronika Coassolo) Song: Veronika Album: Knowle West Boy If I had been on your mind on that day Holding on to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=1002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lyrics: Veronika (Tricky)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}