{"id":4186,"date":"2023-06-03T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboor.net\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2023-06-04T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T02:42:05","slug":"waterloo-bridge-and-ayahuasca-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Bridge and Ayahuasca Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ayahuasca (take two)\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOl0d-m70Bk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every year, sometime in May, I think that I will record John Elwood Cook&#8217;s &#8220;Memorial Day&#8221; and publish it on Memorial Day. This year I made a sincere effort at the last minute. I failed to meet the deadline, but wound up with a different Cook song, plus a redo of my own &#8220;Ayahuasca&#8221; from a couple of years ago. I&#8217;d been wanting to redo that one, since there had previously been a dangling, unfinished verse, poking fun at the class-specific aspect of the psychedelic-healing renaissance.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waterloo Bridge by J. E. Cook\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wwqazeU4-bI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the words to both: <\/p>\n<p>Ayahuasca<br \/>\nby Boor<\/p>\n<p>Well there&#8217;s a girl I know from work<br \/>\nAnd I suppose you know her too.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s the guy who&#8217;s into crypto<br \/>\nIn the A-frame next to you.<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s your lesbian ex-girlfriend<br \/>\nWhom you haven&#8217;t seen since college.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve all become the bearers<br \/>\nOf some esoteric knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Cause they&#8217;re all takin Ayahuasca. <\/p>\n<p>These days seems like everybody<br \/>\nFeels like something&#8217;s missing,<br \/>\nLike their chakras need aligning<br \/>\nAnd their boo-boos all need kissing.<br \/>\nAnd so they go online and find themselves<br \/>\nA shaman or a wizard.<br \/>\nAnd they drink some shit that makes &#8217;em puke<br \/>\nAnd then they see a lizard. <\/p>\n<p>Cause they&#8217;re all takin Ayahuasca. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not your standard stoners<br \/>\nAnd they ain&#8217;t your basic ballers.<br \/>\nYou can tell these frequent friars<br \/>\nBy the colors of their collars.<br \/>\nHoney, this ain&#8217;t no white lightnin<br \/>\nLike they cook down in the hollers.<br \/>\nYou can get a hit of this shit<br \/>\nFor about a thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to take ayahuasca,<br \/>\nJust like they&#8217;re all takin ayahuasca.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but when they get done hurling,<br \/>\nWell, their senses get to reeling.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s nothing like a notion,<br \/>\nAnd it surely ain&#8217;t a feeling.<br \/>\nAnd it takes eleven hours<br \/>\nJust to peel them off the ceiling.<br \/>\nWe used to call this getting high,<br \/>\nBut now we call it healing. <\/p>\n<p>Cause we&#8217;re all takin Ayahuasca.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Bridge<br \/>\nby J.E. Cook<\/p>\n<p>From the Waterloo Bridge,<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<br \/>\nThis is not what it seems.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not your normal daydream.<br \/>\nThe Waterloo Bridge<br \/>\nGoes higher and higher<br \/>\nAnd I seem to be hanging off the edge<br \/>\nOf the Waterloo Bridge.<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody loves  jumpers<br \/>\nIn their own pathetic way.<br \/>\nAnd I feel like I&#8217;ve let the crowd<br \/>\nDown today.<br \/>\nCrucified in checkered slacks.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a man with no impact<br \/>\nUnless it&#8217;s smack<br \/>\nOff the Waterloo Bridge.<br \/>\nSpit down in the in the dirty water.<br \/>\nThis is not what it seems,<br \/>\nNot your normal daydream.<br \/>\nThe Waterloo Bridge<br \/>\nGoes higher and higher<br \/>\nAnd I seem to be hanging off the edge,<br \/>\nOf the Waterloo Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Wibble-wobble, wibble-wobble.<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon, if you&#8217;re gonna go.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been taking time out of our day<br \/>\nTo see the show.<br \/>\nTeetering won&#8217;t do,<br \/>\n\tfor you.<br \/>\nNow totter.<br \/>\nWibble-wobble, wibble-wobble.<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<br \/>\nThis is not what it seems.<br \/>\nNot your normal daydream.<br \/>\nTeetering won&#8217;t do,<br \/>\n\tfor you.<br \/>\nNow totter.<br \/>\nWibble-wobble, wibble-wobble.<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<\/p>\n<p>From the Waterloo Bridge,<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<br \/>\nThis is not what it seems.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not your normal daydream.<br \/>\nThe Waterloo Bridge<br \/>\nGoes higher and higher<br \/>\nAnd I seem to be hanging off the edge<br \/>\nOf the Waterloo Bridge<br \/>\nSpit down in the dirty water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, sometime in May, I think that I will record John Elwood Cook&#8217;s &#8220;Memorial Day&#8221; and publish it on Memorial Day. This year I made a sincere effort at the last minute. I failed to meet the deadline, but wound up with a different Cook song, plus a redo of my own &#8220;Ayahuasca&#8221; from &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=4186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Waterloo Bridge and Ayahuasca Redux&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFJp-15w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}