{"id":879,"date":"2010-05-05T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/05\/05\/tuesday-eveing-leaving-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:12:00","slug":"tuesday-eveing-leaving-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/05\/05\/tuesday-eveing-leaving-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday eveing – leaving las vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Ah.. just got to the gate and they’re boarding my plane. I’m\u00a0 doing my best Cheryl Crowe\u00a0 immatation and leaving las vegas.. bound for Dallas.. It’s been an good, interesting and thought provoking trip, .. Guess.. no time to discuss.. now.. We’re boarding.. I guess I need to go\u00a0 more tomorrow… <\/p>\n

nite folks.. nite same
-me<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n“Leaving Las Vegas”<\/b><\/p>\n

Life springs eternal<\/p>\n

On a gaudy neon street<\/p>\n

Not that I care at all<\/p>\n

I spent the best part of my losing streak<\/p>\n

In an Army Jeep<\/p>\n

For what I can’t recall<\/p>\n

Oh I’m banging on my TV set<\/p>\n

And I check the odds<\/p>\n

And I place my bet<\/p>\n

I pour a drink<\/p>\n

And I pull the blind<\/p>\n

And I wonder what I’ll find <\/p>\n

Chorus<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m Leaving Las Vegas<\/p>\n

Lights so bright<\/p>\n

Palm sweat, blackjack<\/p>\n

On a Saturday night<\/p>\n

Leaving Las Vegas<\/p>\n

Leaving for good, for good<\/p>\n

I’m leaving for good<\/p>\n

I’m leaving for good<\/p>\n

Used to be I could drive up to<\/p>\n

Barstow for the night<\/p>\n

Find some crossroad trucker<\/p>\n

To demonstrate his might<\/p>\n

But these days it seems<\/p>\n

Nowhere is far enough away<\/p>\n

So I’m leaving Las Vegas today<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m standing in the middle of the desert<\/p>\n

Waiting for my ship to come in<\/p>\n

But now no joker, no jack, no king<\/p>\n

Can take this loser hand<\/p>\n

And make it win<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/i><\/p>\n

I quit my job as a dancer<\/p>\n

At the Lido Des Girls<\/p>\n

Dealing blackjack until one or two<\/p>\n

Such a muddy line between<\/p>\n

The things you want<\/p>\n

And the things you have to do<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m leaving Las Vegas<\/p>\n

And I won’t be back<\/p>\n

No I won’t be back<\/p>\n

Not this time<\/p>\n

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Ah.. just got to the gate and they’re boarding my plane. I’m\u00a0 doing my best Cheryl Crowe\u00a0 immatation and leaving las vegas.. bound for Dallas.. It’s been an good, interesting and thought provoking trip, .. Guess.. no time to discuss.. now.. We’re boarding.. I guess I need to go\u00a0 more tomorrow… nite folks.. nite same-me … Continue reading Tuesday eveing – leaving las vegas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}