{"id":2324,"date":"2021-12-24T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/?page_id=2324"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:39:27","slug":"lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love writing lyrics almost as much as I love writing music.  Although I seem to never run out of musical ideas, lyrics are a different thing altogether.  Sometimes I languish in constant defeat as I struggle to get something out.  But sometimes it really does flow down on the page &#8211; almost all at once.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once in a while I land on something that resonates with people.   It&#8217;s nice to have your lyrics quoted as in the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Watch-Sylvia-Ride-Lyrics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Watch Sylvia Ride&#8221;<\/a>, when I travel writer grabbed a line out of the lyric to headline their article on the Yukon.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/with-fierce-determination-and-a-double-dose-of-pride\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2680\">Read Article Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some of my lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Beneath-the-Yukon-Moon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beneath the Yukon Moon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/My-1920s-Dream-Has-Come-True.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">My 1920s Dream Girl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/The-Moon-is-Half-Way-to-Wednesday.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Moon is Halfway to Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/The-Old-Post-Office-Lyrics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Old Post Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Whitehorse-Kind-of-Day.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Whitehorse Kind of Day<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Watch-Sylvia-Ride-Lyrics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Sylvia Ride<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Purple-Mountain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purple Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love writing lyrics almost as much as I love writing music. Although I seem to never run out of musical ideas, lyrics are a different thing altogether. Sometimes I languish in constant defeat as I struggle to get something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/lyrics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantsimpson.net\/gs-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}