
{"id":929,"date":"2007-09-14T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2007-09-14T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T05:20:19","slug":"lyrics-unbound-suzanne-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics: Unbound (Suzanne Vega)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another set of lyrics off Suzanne Vega&#8217;s new album Beauty &#038; Crime.  The other lyrics online for this song weren&#8217;t blatantly wrong, but had missing or incorrect words in almost every verse, and someone doesn&#8217;t understand the difference between &#8220;its&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I think this is probably the best album of the year so far, at least in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Suzanne Vega<br \/>\n<strong>Song:<\/strong> Unbound<br \/>\n<strong>Album:<\/strong> Beauty &#038; Crime<\/p>\n<p>I knew a plant<br \/>\nWhose roots were bound<br \/>\nAnd then returned<br \/>\nInto the ground<\/p>\n<p>Every day<br \/>\nI watched it grow<br \/>\nEvery day<br \/>\nIt struggled so<\/p>\n<p>Roots were bound, the roots were bound<br \/>\nThe roots were bound into the ground<br \/>\nWatched it grow, watched it grow<br \/>\nWatched it as it struggled so<\/p>\n<p>I dug it up<br \/>\nI cut the twine<br \/>\nAnd so like this<br \/>\nI made it mine<\/p>\n<p>I watched it drink<br \/>\nAnd watched it feed<br \/>\nAnd grow beyond<br \/>\nIts simple need<\/p>\n<p>Cut the twine, I cut the twine<br \/>\nCut the twine and made it mine<br \/>\nWatched it feed, watched it feed<br \/>\nWatched it feed the simple need<\/p>\n<p>Unbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground<br \/>\nUnbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground<\/p>\n<p>I was once<br \/>\nTied at the root<br \/>\nConfined with twine<br \/>\nBoth mind and foot<\/p>\n<p>I cut it loose<br \/>\nAnd now am free<br \/>\nAs anything<br \/>\nAlive can be<\/p>\n<p>(alive can be, alive can be, alive can be&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>At the root, bound at the root<br \/>\nAt the root both mind and foot<br \/>\nAm free, now am free<br \/>\nAs anything alive can be<\/p>\n<p>Unbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground<br \/>\nUnbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground<\/p>\n<p>Unbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground<br \/>\nUnbound, roots unbound<br \/>\nUnbound into the ground <\/p>\n<p>(into the ground, the ground, the ground&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another set of lyrics off Suzanne Vega&#8217;s new album Beauty &#038; Crime. The other lyrics online for this song weren&#8217;t blatantly wrong, but had missing or incorrect words in almost every verse, and someone doesn&#8217;t understand the difference between &#8220;its&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8221;. By the way, I think this is probably the best album of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lyrics: Unbound (Suzanne Vega)&#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":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}