{"id":1131,"date":"2011-02-04T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2011-02-04T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:16:44","slug":"the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-texarkana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-texarkana\/","title":{"rendered":"The music of Give Up the Ghost: &#8220;Texarkana&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next song on the unofficial soundtrack for <i>Give Up the Ghost<\/i> is the first of two R.E.M. songs, both of which are from their album <i>Out of Time<\/i>.  Here&#8217;s &#8220;Texarkana&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jP--MxYzTuo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jP--MxYzTuo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To me this is a Tim song.  Tim desperately searching for something he&#8217;s not even sure is possible, for a chance to talk to his mom again, for a way to come to terms with her death and the hollowness he&#8217;s feeling in his friendships, for the strength to keep going in spite of all that.  &#8220;I would give my life to find it\/I would give it all.&#8221;  And then, &#8220;Catch me if I fall.&#8221;  Which I think you could read as the appeal he&#8217;s making to Cass, even if he never says it outright.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also very fond of the lines &#8220;40,000 reasons for living\/40,000 tears in your eye&#8221; because they fit the scene in Chapter 17 so well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics007.com\/R.E.M.%20Lyrics\/Texarkana%20Lyrics.html\">Full lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next song on the unofficial soundtrack for Give Up the Ghost is the first of two R.E.M. songs, both of which are from their album Out of Time. Here&#8217;s &#8220;Texarkana&#8221;: To me this is a Tim song. Tim desperately &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/the-music-of-give-up-the-ghost-texarkana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}