{"id":2184,"date":"2015-02-17T22:07:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:54:11","slug":"once-again-turn-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/02\/17\/once-again-turn-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again: Turn Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beck -- Phase + Turn Away (2014)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJXXhgmoXzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/beck\/turnaway.html\">AZ Lyrics<\/a>, the last verse [updated per comment below]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTurn, turn away<br \/>\nFrom the weight of your own words<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s magic for the devil<br \/>\nAnd betray the lack of change<br \/>\nOnce you have spoken<br \/>\nTurn away\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Update 18feb15: listening to the song again, I think the lyric is &#8220;from the weight of your own words&#8221;&#8230; not &#8220;of your own past&#8221;, as AZ Lyrics has posted. This actually makes even more sense, and I&#8217;ve edited this post accordingly.]<\/p>\n<p>From the weight of your own words: it&#8217;s magic, for the devil.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s perhaps too easy to interpret pop song lyrics to whatever mindset you currently inhabit &#8212; but listening to this song again, and again, I&#8217;m thinking of the Brian Williams scandal, and more generally, about how human memory is not reliable, as has been demonstrated in so many ways &#8212; how depending on that &#8220;weight of your own words&#8221; can come back and bite you; &#8220;magic for the devil&#8221;, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as a blogger with an unknown, likely infinitesimal, readership, I also appreciate the lyrics of the first verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTurn, turn away<br \/>\nFrom the sound of your own voice<br \/>\nCalling no one, just a silence\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I do have a project in mind, following the outline of my provisional conclusions, and once that is done, like anyone writing a book, all you can do once finished is to let it loose, sit back and receive feedback, or not. Turn away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via AZ Lyrics, the last verse [updated per comment below] Turn, turn away From the weight of your own words It&#8217;s magic for the devil And betray the lack of change Once you have spoken Turn away [Update 18feb15: listening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/02\/17\/once-again-turn-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind","category-music","category-narrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}