{"id":573,"date":"2014-01-21T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frankvollmann.com\/frankthebaptist\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-03-27T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:17:03","slug":"iron-water-and-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankvollmann.com\/frankthebaptist\/iron-water-and-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron, Water, and Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refrain:<br \/>\nOut of our hats we pull magic surprises<br \/>\nWisdom is beauty, it comes in many disguises<br \/>\nOut of the earth: Iron, water, and wood<br \/>\nLend me your strength<br \/>\nMy intentions are good<br \/>\nx2<\/p>\n<p>We stagger through life and get beat to the ground<br \/>\nThe heavens above pointing which way is down<br \/>\nAll the while mocking that pain has a sound<br \/>\nFear crushes in, treachery is abound<\/p>\n<p>And just as we\u2019re breaking down<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<br \/>\nOut of our hats we pull magic surprises<br \/>\nWisdom is beauty and the tide always rises<br \/>\nOut of the earth: Iron, water, and wood<br \/>\nLend me your strength<br \/>\nMy intentions are good<\/p>\n<p>We break from the crowd to evolve on our own<br \/>\nOnly to find we were always alone<br \/>\nTempered and tested and turning to stone<br \/>\nPlease take all my flesh and my blood and my bones<\/p>\n<p>And just as we\u2019ve lost the tone<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<br \/>\nOut of our hats we pull magic surprises<br \/>\nWisdom is beauty, it comes in many disguises<br \/>\nOut of the earth: Iron, water, and wood<br \/>\nLend me your strength<br \/>\nMy intentions are good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refrain: Out of our hats we pull magic surprises Wisdom is beauty, it comes in many disguises Out of the earth: Iron, water, and wood Lend me your strength My intentions are good x2 We stagger through life and get beat to the ground The heavens above pointing which way is down All the while mocking that pain has a sound Fear crushes in, treachery is abound And just as we\u2019re breaking down Refrain: Out of our hats we pull magic surprises Wisdom is beauty and the tide always rises Out of the earth: Iron, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-the-new-colossus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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